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Mayor’s office: Phone contract competitively bid

Mayor’s office: Phone contract competitively bid

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The mayor’s office says a for and network equipment was competitively .

A spokesman for the mayor said Thursday that city employees requested the purchase, not the more than two dozen consultants in the mayor’s information technology office who work for the Rockville company that won the contract.

City Comptroller Joan Pratt raised concerns Wednesday about the purchase from because of the number of the company’s employees working in the technology office. Pratt says the mayor is trying to take the project from Pratt’s office and avoid competitive bidding requirements — at taxpayers’ expense.

has demanded an apology, saying the transactions were proper.