California’s health insurance exchange executed more than 300 contracts with vendors worth roughly $1 billion from late 2010 through July, according to agency records obtained by The Associated Press. Those figures do not include the value of competitively awarded contracts with large health providers, such as MetLife and Kaiser Permanente, which are temporarily shielded from public disclosure by state law.
Contracts with state and government agencies, such as the California Department of Health Care Services, tallied nearly $370 million, and did not require competitive bids. The non-government contracts that were not competitively bid are listed below, along with the time period the contract was in effect and a description of the work to be done, as provided by Covered California.
