FIRM WANTS DWP TO PAY.Byline: James Nash Staff Writer A month after shutting down a computer program that was supposed to save the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest municipal utility in the United States, serving 3.9 million residents in 2006. It was founded in 1902 to deliver water and electricity supplies to residents and businesses in Los Angeles. millions of dollars and reduce the possibility of ``pay to play'' contracting, the company that developed the program filed a legal claim Wednesday, alleging nonpayment. The DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection , which issues nearly $1 billion in contracts annually for everything from janitorial supplies to legal advice, reverted re·vert intr.v. re·vert·ed, re·vert·ing, re·verts 1. To return to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief. 2. Law To return to the former owner or to the former owner's heirs. to a manual system of bidding after OFS (OFS, Norcross, GA, www.ofsbrightwave.com) A manufacturer of optical fibers and interconnect equipment. Formerly the Optical Fiber Solutions (OFS) Group of Lucent, OFS was turned into a stand-alone company acquired by Furukawa Electric in 2001. , The Business Doctors pulled the plug on a computerized bidding system
The claim filed by OFS alleges that the Department of Water and Power refused to pay a $2.8 million bill to expand the computer system to include contracts for construction and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. of more than $150,000. The DWP previously had paid the Inglewood company nearly $10 million to develop an automated system for soliciting and evaluating bids for products and services. DWP officials say the program has saved them nearly $7 million while OFS' president, B.J. Hawkins, estimates $30 million in savings. ``The whole purpose of this contract was to reveal any sham False; without substance. A sham Pleading is one that is good in form but is so clearly false in fact that it does not raise any genuine issue. operations, any political operations or any pay to play, such as this wonderful PR contract that we read about in the media,'' said Browne Greene, an attorney for OFS. Greene was referring to the DWP's former $3 million-a-year contract with the public-relations firm of Fleishman Hillard, which is under investigation for alleged overbilling. Greene and Hawkins declined to say how much of OFS' business came from the DWP contract, although they said company officials spent more than 90 percent of their time developing and refining the e-procurement system they created for the DWP. In a written statement, DWP spokeswoman Darlene Battle said the DWP ``has met its obligations under the contract,'' but officials declined to comment further. James Nash, (213) 978-0390 james.nash(at)dailynews.com |
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