MD comptroller scolds universities for lack of ‘rhyme or reason’ in dining service contracts

Comptroller Brooke Lierman on Wednesday scolded the University System of Maryland and five of its institutions for lacking “any sort of rhyme or reason” in the procurement processes they used to award dining service contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars. University representatives pointed out that they weren’t in their current roles when the contracts were first sent out for bid, and they were unable to explain some decisions that their predecessors made.