Audit: No proof privatization saves money
Source: By Bill Cotterell, Tallahassee Democrat (FL), December 11, 2006
Three years into Gov. Jeb Bush's massive privatization of state personnel services and computerization of state purchasing, a new audit says the state still can't document whether the projects are saving taxpayers' money.
The Department of Management Services, in response to the preliminary audit findings of Auditor General Bill Monroe, said it does not have authority to delve into every state agency and find out how much they are saving by using the "People First" personnel service and MyFloridaMarketPlace purchasing system. That would take legislative authorization, DMS said.