The request seeks a company or companies to support implementation of the plan, which will consolidate administration in areas such as finance, information technology, labor relations, customer communications, and safety. In all, 14 areas which are currently handled by each of the MTA’s six operating agencies — New York City Transit, the Long Island Railroad, Metro-North Railroad, MTA Bus Company, MTA Bridges and Tunnels, and MTA Capital Construction — will be consolidated into a single operation covering all those agencies. [See “MTA approves reorganization plan, task force to address delays,” Trains News Wire, July 26, 2019.]
The request for proposals seeks a company or companies to support the implementation. They must have a background relating to the four major categories involved in the streamlining effort — administration and back-office support; police and safety; construction and development; and
external communications — as well as consulting, business process reengineering, and IT. They must also be proficient in working with transportation agencies and organizations with union employees.
More information on the RFP is available in an MTA press release, and on the Transformation Plan is available here.
If something this large and complex can be pulled off on schedule without serious and constantly on-going problems that result in predicted success never being attained, it will be unique. The fact that MTA is unsure how to do it, especially with all the potential “political” problems, indicates it probably won’t be that successful barring some kind of a miracle.
“The request for proposals seeks a company or companies to support the implementation. They must have a background relating to the four major categories involved in the streamlining effort — administration and back-office support; police and safety; construction and development; and
external communications — as well as consulting, business process reengineering, and IT. They must also be proficient in working with transportation agencies and organizations with union employees.”
This is New York State so they must also be willing and able to pay and employ ghost employees, must be willing and able to pay outrageous salaries and wages to both actual and ghost employees, must be willing and able to pay kick-backs and bribes to union leaders and must be willing and able to pay kick-backs and bribes to political employees and leaders including the governor.
If they can find a company like that, and there are some out there (most related somehow to the governor), then they should be in good shape.
Call BDO.
When you need to hire a consultant to reorganize, you’ve got a problem
Reminds me of a comment I read underneath an article about a passenger flying with an emotional support hamster. The comment was, “If you need an emotional support hamster, you need more than an emotional support hamster.”