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Speaker 1: Inspector General Jeffrey Shapiro is shedding light on his findings

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Speaker 1: in the scrapped service Plaza contract with Applegreen.

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Speaker 2: While maus DOT created a procurement process and established a

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Speaker 2: framework for conducting the procurement, they could have resulted in

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Speaker 2: a consistent and fair basis to evaluate proposals, mass DOT

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Speaker 2: did not follow its own procedures when executing the plan.

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Speaker 1: While he says he did not find evidence of Massachusetts

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Speaker 1: general laws being broken, a big issue was conflicts of

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Speaker 1: interest between the Selection Committee members and Applegreen.

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Speaker 2: I have made eight recommendations to assist mause DOT in

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Speaker 2: doing so.

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Speaker 1: As they try to find a new company to take

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Speaker 1: over interim maass DOT Secretary Philang says none of the

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Speaker 1: previous Selection Committee members are participating this time around.

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Speaker 3: The OLLA POD is as an agency, is to make

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Speaker 3: sure we tighten up our procedures, our processes, and our trainings.

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Speaker 1: From the State House. Some Jarre Brosn and WBZ, Boston's

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Speaker 1: news radio