Goldner - Sour grapes because her company didn’t get the contract
Posted by: AWB in UncategorizedBoo hoo. Karen Goldner works for Don Willis. From what I understand, Willis & Co. bid on the information-technology contract and lost.
The potential hiring of one of two foreign-based companies for local government’s information-technology contract has upset at least one member of Fort Wayne City Council.
Councilwoman Karen Goldner, D-2nd, said she was “beyond disappointed” at the plan by the city and Allen County to award a multimillion contract to a company from overseas. She said she was concerned there was no incentive to find a local business to help with the work.
“I, as a city councilwoman, cannot say I want Fort Wayne to develop a technology community and at the same time vote to offshore this contract,” she said. “In my opinion local businesses were not given the consideration they merited.”
I beg to differ. It’s called competition Karen, and apparently your company could not compete, for whatever reason. It’s not going off-shore, the jobs will stay here. How did Willis make his $110 million? His former company, Command System sold technology in-part to foreign countries. Now you want to bitch because it’s the other way around?
Goldner said it is difficult to know what the companies will do in the future to cut costs. She plans to introduce an ordinance Tuesday that would give local companies an edge when competing for professional services or other city contracts.
Read: screw the price, my employer needs the work.
AWB
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Dan,
Do you have any evidence whatsoever that her company bid on the contract? I have the pre-bid sign in sheet and I don’t see FourthWave, Goldner, or Willis anywhere on the list.
The entire premise of your post is that they bid on the contract and lost but I don’t see any facts to back that up. I’m not suggesting there aren’t any but I am saying that I haven’t seen any…
The dollar’s value is soo low that the “only” place these “offshore” companies can spend thier “profits” (from this “huge” Fort Wayne contract) is the United States and that is what they will do. Let’s get real. Fort Wayne needs a vendor that gives a rip about our City not one that only thinks about itself (and there are a lot of those unfortunately and its a pain in the a__ to work with them I have been told).
I don’t think Fourth Wave or Don Willis would be so stupid as to bid for this contract under any of his current companies because of Goldner’s position on City Council. He more likely established some sort of “consortium”, a federation of companies, and bid this, if indeed he did bid it, as some other newly formed entity. He may have also propped up a smaller local company, and bid it that way.
If the bidders and the proposals are available to the public, it shouldn’t be hard to unwind the relationships to find out if indeed Fourth Wave, Don Willis, one of his companies, a company propped up by him, or a consortium of which he is a part, bid on this contract.
A better approach may be to ask Councilwoman Goldner directly, if she has any knowledge if her employer is in anyway associated with any of the vendors or entities that submitted a bid on the city IT contract. Let’s see how she handles a direct question.
I saw that piece. I didn’t know the connection Goldner had with the local company. I do agree that it is good that we are going for the best bid. It will help offset, very little mind you, some of the cost of the HS boondogle downtown.