How about a cost-benefit analysis before hiring contractors?
Is picking up dead deer from state roads a specialized, limited scope task that requires the flexibility and expertise of outside contractors? Or is it something that a few CSEA-represented employees...
View ArticleBeyond roadkill: more from PEF on contractors and in-sourcing
PEF put out a press release late yesterday with some more ideas about how performing a cost-benefit analysis before contracting out state work could be helpful and save money. (They had a press...
View ArticleContractor, audit thyself
In the last few decades, a huge amount of the federal government’s work has been outsourced to contractors. In some agencies, the duties that includes…oversight of government contracts. Wait, that’s...
View ArticlePEF: Save money by not hiring consultants
At an Assembly hearing this morning on the Department of Transportation’s two-year capital plan, a DOT engineer and PEF Executive Board member gave testimony about a novel way to save money on...
View ArticleThanks, America: CapCon clears 2,000 Twitter followers
All hail Dalton Hoffline (“politics nerd, cooking enthusiast, and curry addict” — and employer of the Harvard comma!) on becoming our 2,000th Twitter follower — and thanks to Celeste Katz of the Daily...
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