Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater launched the tool, which is called the Florida Accountability Contract Tracking System, or FACTS.See it here.
The new FACTS tool, available on CFO Atwater’s Transparency Florida website, makes state contracting processes transparent through a centralized, statewide contract reporting system.
CFO Atwater said, “through FACTS, Floridians can now see at the click of a mouse how their government is deploying their tax dollars. Nearly $50 billion, or approximately 56 percent of the state budget, is spent on contracts and agreements for goods and services. This system will ensure higher levels of efficiency and accountability from our government and elected leaders.”
The tool is not simply historical data placed online; it includes contract information that is regularly updated and audited. Through the new system, users are able to search for state contracts by state agency, vendor, dollar amount, date and commodity or service type provided. Search results are available in a downloadable format as well as in a detailed information page which also lists contract deliverables.
The system already includes contract images from DFS and in the next month will include the five highest dollar amount contracts from each state agency. All state agency contract images will be available online later this year. Additionally, DFS will audit and publish its findings of contract performance to the FACTS system for Floridians to determine how well state government establishes and manages contracts.
A contract becomes available to the public as soon as a state agency contract manager loads the contract information into the online system. Florida law requires state agencies to input contracts to FACTS within 30 days of execution.
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Florida Sunshine on Contracts
Fla. state contracts to become public with new website
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