More than half of the active health and human services contracts that Montgomery County holds were awarded without competitive bidding, according to the county’ open data record. County law allows the practice, and the data does not show whether any individual award was improper.The county’s open-data Contracts dataset lists 2,368 active county contracts as of October 30, 2026. Of these, the Department of Health & Human Services holds 515. The data further indicates that 279 of DHHS’s contracts, approximately 54 percent, are non-competitive. These include 254 awarded as “Non-Competitive – Council Resolution,” 23 as “Non-Competitive,” and two as “Non-Competitive –

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