Lawmakers, competitor, await answers from Missouri on questionable Medicaid bid

In July, Navigant Consulting’s David Mosley had questions for the state of Missouri.

A couple of weeks earlier, the managing director of the consulting company had filed a protest over a bid award in a Medicaid contract that went to a competitor, McKinsey & Co.

One of the top officials in state government is the state’s chief operating officer, Drew Erdmann, who used to work for McKinsey. But that’s not why Navigant protested the bid.

As I reported in June, it was because it wasn’t an open and transparent process, that the winning bid was more than three times higher than several others, and that the original bid included preconditions that in a normal bidding process would have rendered it unresponsive to the state’s request.

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