The state's lieutenant governor has also expressed dismay over the quick awarding of a nearly $300 million contract to a little-known north Texas company.
On Friday, Republican Texas state Senator Bob Hall sent a letter asking Texas Governor Greg Abbott to stop the state's"technically wrong, financially wrong, and morally wrong" contact tracing program. The program, Texas Health Trace, is meant to quickly identify, quarantine and educate individuals who may have contracted COVID-19.
In his letter, Hall wrote that fear had caused federal, state and local governments to"overreact" to the coronavirus epidemic and also scared consumers and companies into harming the economy. "We should have been in the loop and we should have known. We should have been able to ask questions," the state's Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said on Thursday about MTX Group's approved contract.
Hall also questioned MTX Group's ability to manage a nearly $300 million contract that involves rapidly recruiting, training, mobilizing and managing over 4,000 tracers, especially after the company recently went 123 percent over budget to handle licensing and regulatory processing for Kentucky's Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
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