Medicaid deal draws protest

Rick Karlin, Capitol bureau

Two major information services firms have filed protests against the state’s award last month of a $550 million contract to Xerox Corp, to set up and run a new Medicaid information management system.

The protest was lodged by the losing bidder, Hewlett Packard, and Computer Sciences Corp. or CSC, with the State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli who must sign off on the deal.

HP officials confirmed that the protest had been filed as did CSC, which offered the following statement.

“We continue to communicate our concerns regarding the risky implementation schedule to the New York State Department of Health and the New York Office of the State Comptroller; most recently, through the formal protest process, filed with the Office of the State Comptroller; on June
11, 2014.”

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