Digicon, TeleCommunication Systems vie for $20M city contract

Two Maryland IT companies, Rockville-based Digicon and Hanover-based TeleCommunication Systems, are both looking to win a city IT contract worth $20 million, the Baltimore Brew reports.
After a “leading lobbyist” for Digicon handed a letter to “at least one member” of the Board of Estimates, the panel denied giving TeleCom the contract and moved to defer the decision for a week.
As the Brew reports, “Digicon, of Rockville, has been an IT consultant to the city since 2006. It figured prominently in last year’s charges by City Comptroller Joan Pratt  that the mayor’s staff improperly paid more than $600,000 to Digicon” to purchase VoIP phones and equipment, something Technically Baltimore has covered.