MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state suspended consideration of bids to operate a new $15 million statewide student information system after it discovered that a Wisconsin-based company in the running had been offered tax breaks if it won the contract.

The state Department of Administration said it suspended Tuesday’s original due date for bids after learning that the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation had made what it calls a “soft offer” of economic development assistance to Skyward contingent upon it winning the bid — an offer that has since been rescinded.