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In what the United States Government hopes will be the start of a long and fruitful partnership, The Walt Disney Company has been awarded a lucrative Department of Defense contract after overtaking Lockheed Martin in the production of bombs.
Published: Sunday, February 4th, 2024 @ 9:53 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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According to a Dec. 21 press release from state Treasurer Dale R. Folwell, ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc. and its parent company Unilever PLC have been added to a list of companies that the Treasurer’s Office restricts investments and contracts with due to their anti-Israel activity.
Published: Monday, January 1st, 2024 @ 9:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The state's highest court will not dive into a legal dispute about Wake County's scrap metal contract.
Published: Thursday, December 7th, 2023 @ 1:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Former top N.C. political donor Greg Lindberg is asking the state Supreme Court to block an Appeals Court ruling against him. The case is linked to breach of contract and fraud charges related to Lindberg's insurance businesses.
Published: Saturday, September 30th, 2023 @ 9:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Department of Transportation is urging the state's second-highest court to step into a contract dispute.
Published: Thursday, June 8th, 2023 @ 3:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Blue Cross North Carolina only Losing Bidder to Proceed with Litigation Against State Health Plan
Published: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 2:51 am
By: ENC NOW
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"An absolutely outrageous violation of people's religious rights"
Published: Friday, March 17th, 2023 @ 11:50 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A bill that would reduce the number of bids required for the state to contract house repairs after a disaster passed a N.C. House Committee on Wednesday.
Published: Sunday, March 12th, 2023 @ 12:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State Department says a congressional panel consisting of former military officials involved in the blunders, activists, and defense contractor executives should do the probe instead.
Published: Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 @ 12:58 am
By: Daily Wire
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina is going to court to challenge the recent decision to award a major State Health Plan contract to Aetna.
Published: Monday, March 6th, 2023 @ 9:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina State Health Plan and State Treasurer Dale Folwell released documents from the Plan’s Request for Proposal process to change its third-party administrator from North Carolina Blue Cross Blue Shield to Aetna at a media event Tuesday.
Published: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023 @ 1:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina State Health Plan announced in a press release on Friday that it had rejected protest appeals for the Third-Party Administrative Services (TPA) contract from Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina and UMR, Inc.
Published: Tuesday, February 7th, 2023 @ 9:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Thursday, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) submitted a 14-page formal protest to Sam Watts, acting administrator of the State Health Plan, opposing the award of the plan’s 2025-27 third-party administrator contract to Aetna.
Published: Monday, January 30th, 2023 @ 10:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell said Tuesday the decision to go with Aetna as the third-party administrator for the State Health Plan was in the best interest of plan members.
Published: Sunday, January 29th, 2023 @ 5:10 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina will no longer be the third-party administrator for the State Health Plan come Jan. 1, 2025.
Published: Saturday, January 21st, 2023 @ 1:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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We welcome the opportunity to engage in a factual, thoughtful and transparent review of the State Health Plan’s contracting process for third party administration services going into effect two years from now.
Published: Sunday, January 15th, 2023 @ 10:33 pm
By: ENC NOW
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A month after Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis won a resounding reelection victory and declared that the state is “where woke goes to die,” the state’s second-largest school system signed a contract with an infamous peddler of “woke” partisanship to children.
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 @ 12:31 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Two Years from Now, in 2025, the New Contract with Aetna Will Bring Lower Costs, Transparency, and Generate $140 Million in Administrative Savings
Published: Thursday, January 5th, 2023 @ 11:05 pm
By: ENC NOW
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A South Dakota health official appointed by Republican Gov. Kristi Noem has retired following reports of a controversial state contract with a transgender activist group.
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2022 @ 8:56 am
By: Daily Wire
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Students from N.C. State University and UNC-Chapel Hill are asking the state Supreme Court to allow their breach-of-contract lawsuit to move forward.
Published: Thursday, November 24th, 2022 @ 9:28 am
By: Carolina Journal
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This summer, West Virginia State Treasurer Riley Moore published a list of five financial institutions that he has deemed ineligible for state banking contracts due to their environmental and social activism.
Published: Thursday, August 18th, 2022 @ 3:19 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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NC needs to step up and do the same
Published: Friday, July 29th, 2022 @ 11:17 am
By: John Steed
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Ceremony will recognize nearly 100 state procurement professionals earning contract manager and purchaser certifications from 2020-2022
Published: Friday, June 24th, 2022 @ 12:38 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The N.C. Supreme Court has ruled, 4-2, that 220,000 state government retirees had a contractual right to premium-free health care benefits that had been promised to them. Now a trial court will have to determine whether state changes to those benefits a decade ago violated the contract.
Published: Wednesday, March 16th, 2022 @ 2:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A family is suing the state of Illinois, a child welfare investigator contracted by the state, and others, alleging their three children were taken away for more than a year over the investigator’s hurt feelings.
Published: Sunday, March 6th, 2022 @ 8:48 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Rodney Scott, the former chief of the United States Border Patrol, said during a Fox News interview that the Biden administration has been paying contractors millions of dollars a day to not build the wall along with U.S.-Mexico border, even as the administration faces an illegal immigration crisis.
Published: Monday, November 29th, 2021 @ 3:40 am
By: Daily Wire
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will deny them state contracts
Published: Wednesday, November 10th, 2021 @ 7:06 am
By: John Steed
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State Auditor Beth Wood’s office found that Shelton Jeffries, the former superintendent of Nash County Public Schools, violated his contract and district procedures by ringing up $45,690 in questionable expenses during his three-plus years at the helm.
Published: Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021 @ 11:11 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission voted unanimously last week to recommend the state award a 10-year contract for warehouse services to LB&B Associates, the target of an audit in 2018 that has over the previous years cost the state about $13.5 million.
Published: Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 @ 12:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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With the help of the Food and Drug Administration, which has fast-tracked the effort, the state of New York is trying out potential treatments for people who have contracted COVID-19.
Published: Sunday, March 29th, 2020 @ 11:56 pm
By: Daily Wire
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State Superintendent Mark Johnson isn’t happy with how the N.C. Department of Information Technology has handled the dispute between Amplify and Istation for the K-3 reading contract, and he’s taking the matter to the courts.
Published: Saturday, December 21st, 2019 @ 4:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Office of State Budget and Management, in consultation with the North Carolina Department of Health Human Services' Division of Social Services, has awarded a $2.5 million contract to SLI Global Solutions LLC subsidiary, the Center for the Support of Families, to provide technical assistance
Published: Friday, March 2nd, 2018 @ 2:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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For most of the 241 years since North Carolina adopted its first Constitution there have been arguments about the proper balance and separations of power between the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government
Published: Wednesday, December 13th, 2017 @ 8:14 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell has awarded BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina the Third Party Administrator contract for the State Health Plan
Published: Thursday, September 21st, 2017 @ 9:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state's Medicaid program is not detecting or preventing waste, fraud, and abuse due to lack of staff, bureaucratic cooperation, and proper documentation, and the Medicaid Program Integrity Section is paying outside contractors much more to root out those problems than they return in savings
Published: Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 @ 9:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new audit has found that many no-bid contracts within the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services lacked proper review or documentation, and didn’t have adequate written justification to waive competition, putting taxpayer dollars at risk.
Published: Thursday, August 11th, 2016 @ 10:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory's Press Office issued the following statement from Press Secretary Graham Wilson
Published: Sunday, July 17th, 2016 @ 1:11 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Shortly after the Council of State approved the first $200 million issuance and sale for the Connect NC Bond, Appalachian State University was awarded a construction contract to build a new College of Health Sciences Building
Published: Monday, June 20th, 2016 @ 3:28 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Opponents of the proposed high-occupancy-or-toll lane project along Interstate 77 sense a bit of momentum after a bill ordering the N.C. Department of Transportation to cancel the project's contract overwhelmingly passed the House
Published: Thursday, June 9th, 2016 @ 4:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lawmakers spent two hours Wednesday grilling the state budget director and the public safety secretary over the extension of a prison maintenance contract by a contractor.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 1:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Even though Gov. Pat McCrory has said the tolling project along the Interstate 77 corridor north of Charlotte will go forward, it faces a challenge to its constitutionality, as well as allegations the contractor did not meet full-disclosure requirements.
Published: Monday, August 3rd, 2015 @ 4:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A group of Lake Norman-area business leaders traveled by chartered bus to Raleigh on Tuesday to urge state legislators to support a bill that would cancel the state’s contract with a private company to build and operate toll lanes on Interstate 77 between Charlotte and Mooresville.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 12:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The prescription for improving North Carolina's Medicaid program has been a repetitive talking point for the past two years. The initial game plan back in April 2013 was for the state to contract with at least three private managed care organizations (MCOs) to take on full risk for managing...
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 @ 9:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory issued the following statement after the Raleigh City Council approved a contract that calls for the City of Raleigh to purchase the 300-acre Dorothea Dix property from the State of North Carolina for approximately $52 million.
Published: Saturday, April 25th, 2015 @ 12:41 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The 2015 legislative session has commenced, which means that the House and Senate will be hashing out their differences about how best to reform our state's Medicaid program. The Senate favors a privatization approach, where multiple managed care companies (MCOs) compete for state contracts to...
Published: Sunday, January 25th, 2015 @ 6:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of Governor Pat McCrory's top efficiency initiatives, North Carolina's Procurement Transformation Project, is saving the state an estimated $32 million over the course of three years on four major state contracts.
Published: Friday, January 23rd, 2015 @ 9:06 pm
By: Chris Downey
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In laying out its legal case against the state over elimination of teacher tenure, the North Carolina Association of Educators cites some of the same constitutional constructs of contract law that state employees used two decades ago to overturn the General Assembly's repeal of income tax exemptions
Published: Saturday, February 15th, 2014 @ 12:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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