Sentence examples for contracting out services from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON — Despite a widespread belief that contracting out services to the private sector saves the federal government money, a new study suggests just the opposite — that the government actually pays more when it farms out work.

Mitie has expanded to employ 63,000 people across businesses including office cleaning, immigration centres and pest control as organisations have sought to cut costs by contracting out services.

The term PPP describes any private sector involvement in public services including the transfer of council homes to housing associations using private loans, and contracting out services like rubbish collection or hospital cleaning to a private companies.

But the idea of contracting out services such as dealing with the customs office, or payroll management, still strikes most post-communist companies as expensive and risky even though the cost in management time of doing things the old way is already high, and rising.Even outsourcing is not much help with problems such as collecting bad debts.

He has said the current loan package is not contingent on those changes, and officials of his department said today that for now they wanted Amtrak only to open its books, freeze management salaries, get an outside audit and not enter into any agreements that would prevent it from contracting out services.

Ridiculing some management titles and duplicative government efforts, the Texas governor proposed plans for bringing government into the era of new technology, saying he would save $88 billion over five years by phasing out 40,000 management jobs, contracting out services to the private sector, and increasing use of the Internet.

• contracted out prisons, contracted out services and the actions of people working in prisons but not employed by the prison service.

The lobby group he funded, called PULSE (the "Public and Local Service Efficiency" Campaign) was set up in 1985 to persuade the public sector to contract out services like cleaning and catering.

There is dearth of evidence on provider cost of contracted out services particularly for Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH).

However, little attention has been paid to costing of contracted out services, particularly for Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH) services, and the evidence base is weak for policy makers to estimate resources required for scaling up contracting.

This tool has been widely used to analyze costs for provision of all primary health care services, including contracted out services, delivered in the community and at health posts and basic and comprehensive health centers [ 14– 16].