送交者: 田牛 于 2005-7-15, 13:22:22:
回答: 贺铭《回国看电视的的感慨》里关于美国影视中 由 chouqilozi 于 2005-7-15, 11:58:04:
本来加州高速公路巡警换用德国宝马摩托车的合同问题。
CHP motorcycle contract canceled
State says bid writer paid by dealership
By John Hill -- Bee Capitol Bureau
Published 2:15 am PDT Thursday, July 14, 2005
The state canceled a $7 million contract for California Highway Patrol motorcycles after discovering that a state employee involved in writing the bid specifications was paid on the side by the winning bidder, a dealership in Roseville.
Gregory Dills, an associate procurement engineer, got $6,570 over six years for work he did at A&S BMW Motorcycles in Roseville, according to his notice of dismissal.
During that same period, the dealership won three two-year contracts to provide motorcycles to the CHP. Dills worked on the bid specifications and helped evaluate the bidders, the notice of dismissal said.
The Department of General Services, where Dills worked, would not comment on what services he performed for the dealership. Randy Felice, president of A&S BMW Motorcycles, refused comment. Dills, who is appealing his dismissal, could not be reached.
But notices posted on two Web sites list a Greg Dills as a disc jockey at dealership events.
An open house at the dealership in 2002, for instance, featured "DJ Greg Dills," according to a newsletter posted by the BMW Club of Northern California.
The Gregory Dills who worked for the state had a side business as a disc jockey. According to his dismissal notice, Dills had been told by a supervisor in 1998 to stop handling his "DJ business" during work hours.
State law prohibits government workers from having a financial interest in any contract made by them in their official capacity. The notice of dismissal said that Dills' outside work violated that law.
Dills is the son of Ralph Dills, the longest-serving legislator in state history, who died in 2002.
The June 10 cancellation forces the state to redo the contract for CHP motorcycles, awarded last year. The contract for 400 motorcycles was supposed to have run through April.
In response to the case, the Department of General Services launched a review of conflict-of-interest forms filed by other workers involved in procurement, spokesman Matt Bender said.
The review is meant to "spot-check to see if there are any other problems that require further scrutiny," Bender said.
He declined to say whether the review had turned up other possible conflicts, citing confidentiality in personnel matters.
Under current rules, such a review would not detect a conflict like this one.
Dills was not required to list any outside income in his "statement of economic interests" because workers in his position only have to disclose income from contractors whose goods or services are used by the department itself. In this case, because the department was not using the motorcycles, Dills would not have been required to disclose - and in his 2004 form, did not list any outside income.
The department now intends to plug that loophole.
"We're going to update the conflict-of-interest code to accurately reflect the responsibilities of each position," Bender said.
The department also is requiring more of its workers to go through conflict-of-interest training.
"The net effect was to put all managers and employees on notice that they need to be vigilant in avoiding anything that even resembles a conflict," Bender said.
Dills had been through two such courses, according to the notice of dismissal.
The Bee reported in May that the state had suspended the motorcycle contract while it investigated a possible conflict of interest, which the state would not detail. The investigation started with an anonymous tip.
Again this week, the Department of General Services would not provide any information about the investigation, except to say that the contract had been terminated.
But the notice of dismissal issued by the State Personnel Board April 29 did detail the conflict-of-interest allegations.
The notice said that in 1998 Dills was assigned to the project of designing specifications for CHP motorcycles.
Those specifications included the requirement that the motorcycles have anti-lock brakes, "which limited the competition to only BMW motorcycles," the notice said.
"Because of your actions, the public health and safety may be at risk if sufficient numbers of motorcycles cannot be acquired in time to meet the needs of the CHP," the notice said.
But Bender said the CHP can get by until the new contract is awarded.
"The CHP has indicated to us ... their needs would not be jeopardized by going out to bid," he said.
The notice of dismissal also raises the possibility that a court could order the motorcycle dealership to return the money it has received from the state.
Without saying whether the state is seeking that, Bender said "we have been in discussions with A&S over how to properly disentangle the relationship."