What do you think it would have cost to do an in state check of the system instead of hiring a national (and friend of now Senate Majority Leader Kelly) corporation?  This doesn't even consider other questionable aspects like the no-bid.  What other big ticket debacle did we recently have that was also no-bid?  Oh yeah.  The Taj Mahawker.
Are there any scandalous contracts signed under the Republican majority that weren't no-bid?