Who is Ron Read? Clue: formerly of Kurdyla and Associates, which was bought out by Human Academy, and currently heads their Osaka branch, with its "Government Contracts Division"

This is a brief follow up introducing the American running the actual company that placed the bid on the problematic tender at issue. https://hgckansai.com/contact/

I don't have time to go into the administrative proceedings that I have pursued thus far against the city and this company, but there will be a court action against Kyoto City.

Kurdyla & Associates is not only a company which I did a little work for more than 20 years ago when I was in Tokyo, but the name of the company that Joel Hastings ran in Seoul, which I worked for, was a branch of Kurdyla & Associates ("K & H" stood for Kurdyla and Hastings). 

See this blog post from 2015: https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1450811588230624925/813057494645258886