Privatizing state services costs $1 million
Source: By ANDREW PETTY, JUNEAU EMPIRE (AK), June 30, 2006
The state's controversial "pilot" program to privatize procurement services - said to cost Alaska an extra $1 million - sunsets today. ....... An independent study showed the contractor, Anchorage-based Alaska Supply Chain Integrators, ran the state's bills up $1 million more during a one-year period than the work previously done by state employees in the same amount of time.
...... "The evidence is clear that the privatization didn't work," said Sen. Kim Elton, D-Juneau.