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Boone County redirects $50,000 ARPA IT contract funds to roads after split over vendor bids
Summary
After weeks of discussion and a last-minute second bid, Boone County commissioners voted to reallocate $50,000 in ARPA funds originally set for an IT assessment to road maintenance and agreed to revisit the IT procurement after the new year.
Boone County commissioners voted to reallocate $50,000 in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding that had been set aside for an outside IT assessment, approving instead a motion to put the money toward road projects and postpone final vendor selection until after the first of the year.
The move followed a contentious discussion at a special meeting about two competing vendor proposals: a $50,000 proposal from Exos IT (doing business as SANDI) and a $25,000 proposal from Impact. County IT staff and several commissioners said the proposals had different scopes, and some commissioners raised transparency concerns after the second, lower-cost proposal arrived in the days after the prior meeting.
Why it matters: the county must use ARPA funds for allowable projects and, according to staff statements during the meeting, an executed contract needed to…
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