CPI Analysis
A Failure Waiting to Happen
Privatizing San Diego the Walter Reed way: a fiasco in the making.
DO IT RIGHT Protections
Flyer and factsheet on protections needed against the risks of outsourcing (2.56 MB)
Public Service Delivery -- CPI Response on Performance Measures 3/5/08
CPI memo to Budget Committee on Managed Competition process in San Diego, 9/11/07
Supplies and Service Contracts in City of San Diego budget, CPI Analysis on 5/14/07
Background Information
Letter to city officials from 29 professors and educators explaining public protections needed with privatization,12/4/06
San Diego Privatization Forum, 10/06
Research and Experience With Privitization Nationally
At the municipal, state and national level, privatization of government
functions has fallen short again and again. Turning over vital
services to for-profit contractors often results in huge cost
overruns, sloppy work and/or outright fraud. Numerous examples are
documented in the reports listed below.
Privatization Pitfalls Update 2008
University of Maine paper, Spring 2008
Contracting Back In: When Privatization Fails
Cornell University study, 2003
Waves of Regret
What some cities have learned and other cities should know about water privatization fiascos in the United States. Public Citizen, 2005
Walter Reed Army Medical Center: Privatization Disaster
White Paper on Privatization
by Ellen J. Dannin, Professor of Law,
California Western School of Law, San Diego
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