Word: contracting
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Here's a cautionary tale about entrusting the free market with the task of caring for the very poor. Connecticut's welfare administrators, swept up in the national tide of reform, decided last year to inject a little private enterprise into their tired bureaucracy. They awarded a $12.8 million contract to Maximus Inc., based in McLean, Va., to put a shine on a state program that pays for child care for working welfare recipients. But within months Maximus found its operations in the kind of disarray it usually takes government years to achieve. More than...
...increased collections about 11% a year, Suthers says, that record is no better than what government workers were doing and is half the improvement he expected. In Virginia, EDS agreed last year to pay $2.3 million in reimbursements and damages after it failed to deliver on a $45 million contract to computerize the state's Medicaid system. And last month Lockheed Martin admitted that the first year of its Baltimore child-support-collection program fell more than 22% short of its promised performance. A demonstration project run by Maryland state workers in a nontraditional manner has so far managed...
...took over had major flaws of its own. Three of its four child-care systems were not even computerized, which meant workers had to calculate benefits by hand and store data in folders. With all this in mind, Connecticut decided after a review last month to continue Maximus' contract and triple the amount it pays per child-care case. Welfare may be one of the few fields in which a system temporarily plagued by unpaid bills, unanswered phones and system breakdown can still constitute an improvement...
...piece of Parker and Stone. All the networks are interested in whatever they do for their next TV show, as are various production companies ranging from DreamWorks to Warner Bros. to Fox to Paramount. But Comedy Central isn't about to let them go. The network is renegotiating their contract upwards, and will make the change retroactive to South Park's debut. It is also seeking a long-term commitment from the pair...
These 't-shirt detectives' check to see if the manufacturers have contracted with the University and if not, they are usually offered a contract, she said...