Ogilvy PR Picks Up $9M California Rail Contract

It seems Ogilvy PR should be thanking California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s administration for mismanagement. It helped Ogilvy pick up a $9 million contract with the California High-Speed Rail Authority. The bidding process for the contract was re-opened after Mercury Public Affairs – who was about to win the account – was deemed to have too many close ties to the Schwarzenegger administration. Government board members called the original bidding process, “insufficient.”