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Thursday, July 3, 2014

Reed Group making millions off Trimet and the tax payers

Not sure how hiring the Reed group to deal with Trimet employees is saving Trimet anything.
What started as a $174,000 contract has morphed into a multi-million dollar bonanza. That would be the  equivalent of more than a  dozen  full time Trimet employees.  This follows the exact same pattern of all Trimet contracts. Start with a low bid and keep increasing it over and over and over. Nobody says a word about any of it. On page 6 number 3 is TriMet "Work Time Hours Reconciliation" project. Ever hear of it?


6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Reed Group was probably started my a former Trimet Manager

Jason McHuff said...

How are you getting "millions of dollars"? I see (on the last page) $577,460.41. That number includes all of the previous work and not just for those six months.

Regarding "Work Time Hours Reconciliation", see pages 4 and 9. It's the amount of hours that Reed Group is charging TriMet for developing the system.

Al M said...

The last contract amount was over $1 million

Jason McHuff said...

The last contract amount was over $1 million

Where are you seeing that?

Al M said...

Modification 7:
From may 1-october 31 contracts is now $577,460

That's a six month contract. A 12 month contract is worth over a million dollars

Jason McHuff said...

That's a six month contract

No it's not. Point 2 says that the contract is being extended from ending on May 1, and point 3 says the total is now $577,460.41, with an increase for the additional six months of $58,000.

TriMet has one contract with Reed Group, and when they want to continue using them for another six months, they change the contract from (say) 24 months to 24+6, or 30, months.