into effect and that creates a need for a giant computer system, the medicaid management information system. the contracts to build and run the system go to client network services, incorporated or cnsi out of gaithersburg, maryland. the state of michigan had aexis. they formed a partnership with the michigan department of family health. the procurement code in illinois allows health and family services to bypass the bidding process with an intergovernmental agreement. we have up to $190 million of contracts with no transparency and with no bidding. if that s legal in illinois, it shouldn t be and to the extent that s happening across the country the citizens need to know it. reporter: governor bobby jindal of louisiana terminate ad contract with cnsi because a federal grand jury and the state attorney general were investigating ethics violations regarding the procurement