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Posted by James Kennelly on September 09, 2004 at 18:45:57:
In Reply to: Watcha' waitin' for? posted by UBERHIPPY on September 09, 2004 at 16:26:29:
Here's your education:
The only bias was in that disgraceful, unbylined Jersey Journal story today. I have
just let Augie Torres have it over that piece of garbage story. Our administration
was never contacted to respond.
But here's a few things to chew on before one of you undoubtedly follows up
by attacking Tom or me:
Poreda, a business associate of Paul Byrne, has a lot of balls to say something like, "I
thought Janizewski left," in that story. No, you thought he was still here, pal, that's
why you're so aggravated.
The telecom contract was a NO-BID until Tom DeGise made it a competitive
contracting process contract. The no bid was under Janiszewski and Byrne.
The competitive contracting process was created by the STATE to allow localities to
use competition to find the best services through competition. It is different than
the RFP process because rock bottom price for certain key services is not always the
best choice. But under this process, competition is still possible and can help
localities do a better job of servicing their needs.
Just like individuals can choose between a $19.95 a month 56K dial-up internet
provider and a $39.95 a month high speed cable modem internet provider, so too
the County has to choose based on its needs, not just the final price.
Now if an individual is going to send a few emails a month, $19.95 dial-up makes
sense. But if they run a home business doing graphic design or editing, they might
opt for the high speed service because the price differential is worth it.
We have an complex, older telcom infrastructure that Hindsight has done an
outstanding job servicing. The same good government champions who think Paul
Byrne's business associate should get this contract in the name of the taxpayer
probably think we should just upgrade our whole telecom operation to make it a
better fit for Desktop's (Poreda's) expertise. That would cost the taxpayers a fortune
-- we're not doing it.
This isn't a contract for rock salt. It's a complex, tough job, and having 10 out of 55
invitees come in to meet with us about it is not a poor result.
Poreda was not eliminated because he was "invalidated on technicalities."
Poreda failed to submit the most basic company information and provide the most
basic state business form and was warned about this last year. He still did it this
year. These kind of ommissions would have sunk a minority painting contractor
from quoting on a $2,000 seal painting job, let alone a firm competing for a crucial
multi-year county-wide telecom contract.They included:
No New Jersey Business Registration Certificate
No three years of financial statements containing documents and information
consistent with the specifications(balance sheets, income and expense statements
and retained earnings)
No signed declaration of expertise.
No past client contact phone numbers or fax numbers.
Inconsistency between financial statements and personel matrix
Federal Tax ID number not supplied or incomplete.
Why does this matter? Well our website, which some the lameos here like to attack
for having old info on it, has been a nightmare to manage. Why? Because it has to be
housed on our own servers and serviced remotely--adding weeks and months to
changes and for long time leaving it vulnerable to hacking because it wasn't built
behind the county firewall. Why? Because the last website the County had, under a
previous administration, was housed on servers not on county property so when the
fly-bynight company that hosted them went belly up, by-by went county website.
Financials matter. Basic state documents that a mom and pop store have to have
matter. Poreda wants to paint his incompetence as victimization. It's a joke.
And of course no post about this would be complete without the "Geoff Perselay
Controls the Universe Angle" right?
Look, Tom DeGise and Perselay have no significant personal relationship and
Perselay gives to a host of county parties and pacs around the state, little of it goes
to Tom DeGise. Check our nj elect or email me and I'll send you Tom's elec
statements. Perselay was against us in the 2001 mayoral. He has played in one or
two golfing events that Tom has been invited to. That's it.
What about Abe Antun? Abe Antun is honest. End of story. If you want to attack
from that angle, you've got more balls than Poreda. Abe Antun ran for
Commissioner in Union City in 1996 and couldn't tell guys looking for subsidized
apartments anything except, "well you have to get on the list" while out
campaigning. It was precisely that kind of Mr. Spock-like inhuman truth telling that
let Brian Stack kick his ass so easily and I'm happy to say to this day makes him a
valuable asset to Tom DeGise's administration. For god's sake he won't let more
than ten of us have voice mail in the whole county because it's too expensive!
Bill O'Dea is entitled to his opinion. But equating Tom DeGise to Bob Janiszewski as
Poreda did in that story is outrageous.
Byrne and Perselay can go on slashing at each other if they want, but one of their
flunkies doesn't have the right to slime Tom DeGise in the process. Neither do any
of the hacks who spend so much of their taxpayer funded time here.
: GO right ahead and educate us all! What's the true story? Is another $800K over
the top bidder gonna get selected? Or is it like a mother goose?
: Bobby J's budget was a beached whale, bloated and rotten. There should be no
peekaboo tax. There should be a slash and burn of the deadwood followed by a tax
holiday. : : "Degise continues corrupt Janiszewski cruelty to taxpayers!
: : Price $842,000 higher than the low bid OKed because of $28,0000 in
contributions?" : : With this on your front page....don't you think you are showing just a LITTLE bias?
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