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The $180 million-plus laptop contract…

Here it is - the $181,935,125 eight-year contract that the state of Idaho has signed with Hewlett-Packard Co. to supply laptop computers to every Idaho high school student and teacher. It may take a bit to load, but you can see the full contract here; it's 362 pages, making a rather large pdf. Some portions have been redacted "relating to HP trade secrets." In response to my public records request, the State Department of Education provided the contract on paper only, saying, "the file was far too large to send electronically." I took it straight to Kinko's, where my newspaper paid to have it scanned it so I could post it here for you to see.



Betsy Z. Russell
Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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