Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Positive Step for Privatization
Here’s some good governing news from the City: the Mayor has made it known that he would like the City to extend its contract for fleet management for another three years. The City is currently contracting with First Vehicle Services, which was awarded the contract after a Request for Proposals was put together by the City in 2004. The Act 47 Recovery Team did a review of First Vehicle’s work in other cities and at Allegheny County’s garage, where fleet management has been outsourced for some time.
City officials seem happy with the service, despite what had to be hard pressure from City employees and a report from the City Controller’s office on the costs of First Vehicle’s operations.
It may even become possible that the County and the City contract for First Vehicle’s services at the same time, since the proposed City contract renewal would expire at the same time as the County’s. Maybe this will be the catalyst for looking at the numerous services that the City could look to the private sector to provide.
City officials seem happy with the service, despite what had to be hard pressure from City employees and a report from the City Controller’s office on the costs of First Vehicle’s operations.
It may even become possible that the County and the City contract for First Vehicle’s services at the same time, since the proposed City contract renewal would expire at the same time as the County’s. Maybe this will be the catalyst for looking at the numerous services that the City could look to the private sector to provide.
