DOT Contracting Out
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 12:45PM Saw an interesting story about contracting out in DOT. It turns out that DOT contracted out the the Alexander Hamilton Bridge renovation project in New York City. According to the Department of Transportation, the project, at $400 million is the “largest single-contract construction project in the history of the New York State Department of Transportation.
So who got the work? ABC News reported, the project has been bid out to a subsidiary of the China State Construction Engineering Corporation. The report noted, “…the company uses mostly U.S. labor, but many coveted skill jobs such as engineering and design work are Chinese. The profits will also go overseas.”
So, another contracting out success story, taxpayer money creating good private sector jobs.