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Houston reboots SimDesk contract. (Updates).(Houston City Council affirms controversial, $9.5-million contract with SimDesk Technologies for library workstation software)(Brief Article)
In an 8-7 vote, the Houston City Council affirmed December 11 a controversial, $9.5-million contract with SimDesk Technologies to continue providing word-processing, spreadsheet, and e-mail software on all public-access library workstations as well as at other municipal locations. The decision came some two months after Council member Bruce Tatro first alleged that the contract was negotiated in violation of Texas bid law and that it should be cancelled (AL, Aug. 2002, p. 29-30).
The Houston Office of the Inspector General has since issued a report exonerating former city technology chief J. Dennis Piper from any impropriety in the matter; however, on the day of the …
