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Another controversy has erupted in South Carolina’s three-year attempt to establish a lottery.
Officials at the state’s procurement office overturned a September decision to award the $7.5 million ad account to Erwin-Penland. Instead, they handed the business to Rawle Murdy Associates.
Rawle Murdy in Charleston, S.C., essentially demanded a review of the “scoring” that underpinned the board’s Sept. 26 decision to award the account to Erwin-Penland of Greenville, S.C.
“The methods used to calculate compensation to the agency just didn’t make sense,” said Rawle Murdy president Bruce Murdy.
His agency, Murdy said, filed a protest, arguing that the state officials had incorrectly scored the bids.
After a hearing, state chief procurement officer Voight Shealy agreed, saying the method used to calculate cost “did not result in a valid determination of the actual cost proposed” by the competing shops.
The lottery, a highly politicized attempt to raise funds for education in the state, has had a...
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