The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet awarded $150 million of asphalt contracts that only one company bid for in the first half of this year, according to a free market think tank that has routinely criticized such single-bid contracts.

Andrew McNeill, the president of the Kentucky Forum for Rights, Economics & Education (KYFREE), estimated that these 118 single-bid road paving contracts inflated costs for the projects by more than $12 million, compared to scenarios where there would have been competitive bidding.

“The Transportation Cabinet continues to fail Kentucky’s taxpayers,” McNeill stated in the KYFREE release announcing its research. “Every dollar wasted on these excessive awards means less money for transportation priorities that would build safer roads and promote economic devel

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