They are starting to embrace performance-based contracting to their advantage.

Some cities and counties have included language that if you exceed expectations for an entire year, then another year is added to the contract.

The House Republicans, I believe, have taken a step back and said, OK, the way we've always done it has led us to the problems that we're having today - the funding issues, the congestion issues, the lack-of-capacity issues. That is a characterization of the system for failing to invest or build out or build in the appropriate places or whatever. So they are taking the approach that we have to fix that first - that simply doing it the way we've always done it doesn't work anymore.

The difference between the two for me, fundamentally, is that the Senate and the governor want to do it the way it's always been done, and the House wants to see if there's a better way to do things, if there's a way to change the structure of how we provide services.

By refusing to implement the women’s contracting program and repeatedly failing to meet required contracting goals, this administration is undermining virtually every existing opportunity for women business owners to break into the the good ol’ boy network of federal contracting

Their costs for hiring and contracting services is clearly rising faster than their revenue. They are going to have to get a handle on that because the industry is just not growing fast enough to support that.