The Indiana Department of Administration has saved Hoosier taxpayers about $37.6 million over its first six months under Gov. Braun’s leadership, his office announced.

The agency, which manages state assets, has also identified about $72.2 million in previously anticipated expenses that it will now “avoid.”

Braun said a pair of efficiency executive orders “are paying off.”

“We’re finding a lot of things in many of the nooks and crannies of our own state government,” he told reporters at a news conference Wednesday.

Contract renegotiations, for example, saved $1.4 million and prevented $37 million in projected spending, Braun continued.

Reforming the state’s approach to procurement — using national price benchmarks and “smarter processes” — saved $2.3 million and cut $31.8 million from

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