Legislators advance proposal to shed light on Utah’s no-bid emergency contracts

A proposal that would blunt the emergency spending powers of Utah’s executive branch continues to progress through the Legislature, following calls for greater transparency in the state’s early pandemic contracts.These concerns stemmed from the millions of dollars in state spending on no-bid contracts last spring, when then-Gov. Gary Herbert’s administration was racing to stand up its public health effort. In so doing, state officials temporarily suspended their standard procur