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State Comptroller Peter Franchot is raising concerns about a $72 million contract approved this week by the Board of Public Works for the purchase of six helicopters because only one company submitted a bid, The Gazette reports.

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But Franchot (D) said the state will never know if it could have gotten a better deal, because other helicopter manufacturers did not submit bids.

Concerns raised over Md. helicopter bid Washington Post editors 2010

So does Maryland's Comptroller, Peter Franchot, and he's commissioned a cringe-inducing parody to encourage Marylanders to use the state's e-file system for their taxes.

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So does Maryland's Comptroller, Peter Franchot, and he's commissioned a cringe-inducing parody to encourage Marylanders to use the state's e-file system for their taxes.

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"It's a mystery why we received only one bid," Franchot said, adding that he was critical of the request for proposals that might have kept three other major helicopter manufacturers from believing they had a chance of winning the contract.

Concerns raised over Md. helicopter bid Washington Post editors 2010

Franchot: 20 percent favorable, 8 percent unfavorable and 72 percent no opinion.

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Franchot, for example, has embarked on a month-long Economic Listening Tour that made its first stop Wednesday in Prince George's County.

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It will be worth watching how Brown, Gansler and Franchot use the 2010 election year to become better-known and better-positioned for 2014.

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Franchot represented part of Montgomery in the House of Delegates for 20 years.

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