In plain words: Who won public contracts here, and for how much.
Government
View
on Kauaʻi County
12 Stones Global · Kilo Aupuni · County of Kauaʻi · the vendor side of the money
County of Kauaʻi — Contract Awards
awards are posted, but not yet as fetchable data · pending
For Oʻahu and Maui we can show every Notice of Award beside who funds the deciders, because those
counties file their awards into the State’s open record. Kauaʻi does not. It appears in the statewide
award-notice system (HANDS) exactly once. Its real award record lives on its own purchasing site —
and as of this check (2026-06-15) that site now publishes a separate “Notice of Award” web page for each
contract, listing the awarded vendor by name. That is a real step toward openness. The remaining wall: the
host (kauai.gov) sits behind Akamai edge bot-protection and returns HTTP 403 to every automated fetch,
so the dollar amounts on those pages can’t yet be read as data. This page records what is verifiably visible,
names the exact sources, and sets the concrete next step — so the gap is documented, never guessed.
1
Kauaʻi awards in State HANDS
$578,157
that one award’s value
403
kauai.gov bot-wall, every fetch
All figures here are public record, verified in this task (2026-06-15). The statewide HANDS award set
(hands.ehawaii.gov) contains exactly one notice filed under a Kauaʻi County jurisdiction; by contrast it holds
hundreds for Honolulu and Maui. Receiving a contract is lawful and normal — the point is only that Kauaʻi’s
awards are not yet in a form the public can read beside who funds officials. Documented facts and an open question,
not an allegation. No dollar amount on this page is invented: where an amount could not be fetched from the
source this run, it is shown as “not yet fetchable” rather than guessed.
Verified this run — real Notice-of-Award pages on kauai.gov
These award pages exist and are indexed by name; each is a distinct Notice of Award on the County of
Kauaʻi Division of Purchasing site. Vendor names and contract numbers below are verified from the live source
listing. Dollar amounts sit inside each page body, which the Akamai 403 wall blocks from automated reading —
they are the harvest target, not yet a confirmed figure, so they are left blank here on purpose.
awardedvendor · contract no. · status (kauai.gov Tabulations & Awards)
not yet fetchableTHE LIMTIACO CONSULTING GROUP, INC. · Contract 10403 · Notice of Award posted (closed 07/23/2024)
not yet fetchableNELSON/NYGAARD CONSULTING ASSOCIATES, INC. · Contract 10071 · Notice of Award posted
not yet fetchableKKDLY, LLC · Contract 10262 · Notice of Award posted
not yet fetchableGEOSYNTEC CONSULTANTS, INC. · Contract C10556 · Notice of Award posted
not yet fetchable(Professional Services, federal-aid) · Contract C10260 / 2024-XPROF.fedaid-2 · Notice of Award posted
This is a sample of the indexed award pages, not the full ledger — the Tabulations & Awards index lists many
more, each behind the same 403 wall. Harvesting them (browser-driven, to read the amount inside each page) is the
concrete next step that turns this into a real vendor + dollar table like Honolulu’s.
The one Kauaʻi award in the open statewide record
awardedvendor · agency · what / when
$578,157E-TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, LLC · Kauaʻi County — Department of Water Supply · Job No. 26-04, SCADA System Maintenance and Professional Consulting Services · awarded 02/26/2026
One line in the statewide feed is not a county’s procurement. A county that pays for roads, parks, transit
buses, water systems and professional services posts far more than a single award a year — and, as the section
above shows, Kauaʻi in fact does. They are simply posted on the county’s own site, behind a bot-wall,
rather than in the State’s open feed.
Where Kauaʻi actually posts awards — the sources to open
1 · County of Kauaʻi, Division of Purchasing — “Tabulations and Awards”
The canonical county source, and the primary fix. By Hawaiʻi law (HRS 103D) bid tabulations and notices of
award are posted here. Update (2026-06-15): awards are now published as one HTML web page per contract
(e.g. /Contract-10403, /Contract-10071, /Contract-10262-KKDLY-LLC, /C10556) with the vendor named in the page
title — an improvement over per-solicitation PDFs. Wall: the host is behind Akamai edge bot-protection and
returns HTTP 403 to WebFetch and to direct requests even with a browser User-Agent; the dollar amount lives in the
page body. Opening this = a browser-driven harvest (real session, not a bare HTTP client) that reads vendor +
amount off each award page.
2 · County of Kauaʻi — County Financial Transparency tool
The county advertises a web-based transparency tool reporting annual and current-year revenues and expenses.
Status: not yet located as a machine-readable export this run, and the same kauai.gov bot-wall applies. Worth
a targeted check for a vendor-payment (checkbook) view — that would be a second, payment-side cross-reference to the
award pages above.
3 · Public Purchase — County of Kauaʻi procurement portal (GEMS)
The county runs its sealed-bid solicitations through Public Purchase. Status: the public view shows
only open solicitations (e.g. transit-bus IFBs closing 2026), interleaves obfuscation spans to defeat
scraping, and gates award results / vendor names / amounts behind a registered-vendor login. No closed-award
dollar data is publicly fetchable here.
4 · hawaiibids.net — Kauaʻi County listings (cross-check)
An aggregator of Hawaiʻi public solicitations. Status: the free view shows Kauaʻi’s
open bids; its “Bid Results” (awarded vendor + amount) require login (“Login to view the full
list”). Useful as a secondary index, not a public award-dollar source.
5 · State of Hawaiʻi — HANDS award-notice feed (cross-check)
https://hands.ehawaii.gov/hands/awards
The statewide one-stop record, and the spine of the Honolulu and Maui contract pages. Status:
reachable (JS-rendered); Kauaʻi simply does not file into it — hence the single $578,157 row above. This is the
cross-reference, not the primary fix.
6 · County of Kauaʻi Open Data Hub (ArcGIS) — checked, no contracts dataset
https://kauai-open-data-kauaigis.hub.arcgis.com/
The county does run an open-data hub — but it is GIS only (parcels, flood & tsunami zones, parks, bus
routes, water-quality advisories). It carries no procurement, contract-award, or vendor-payment dataset.
Worth a standing watch in case a spending layer is added.
The honest read
Does Kauaʻi County’s spending answer the public the way Oʻahu’s and Maui’s now can?
Today, not quite — but the gap is narrower than it looks. The awards are posted, one named vendor at a time,
on the county’s own site; what blocks the public reader is an Akamai 403 wall over the dollar figures, not the
absence of a record. The next step is concrete and named: a browser-driven harvest of the kauai.gov Tabulations &
Awards pages (read vendor + amount off each Notice of Award), then set those rows beside the Kauaʻi
campaign-finance ledger exactly as the Maui parity page does. Until that harvest runs, this page stands as the marker
of the gap — and an honest one: every vendor and contract number here is from the live source, and no dollar amount
has been invented to fill it.