RD335 - Annual Report on Initiatives on Outsourcing, Privatization and Downsizing within the Department of Transportation


Executive Summary:
The work comprising this report represents a comprehensive investigation of initiatives involving outsourcing, privatization and downsizing within the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). The findings used to produce this report have shown that VDOT spending for fiscal year 2006 had the following breakdown:

Private Sector Vendors - 59%
Payroll - 19%
Payments to Localities and other Transfers - 14%
Debt Service Payments - 8%

This breakdown indicates that 73% of all VDOT expenditures either go to the private sector or to localities/other agencies.