Programs › Competitive Contracting

At Pioneer, we believe state and local governments should employ competitive contracting to provide better public services at lower costs.

Tight budgets demand creativity. Over the past decade, state and local governments across the country have used competitive contracting to contain costs. Massachusetts isn't immune to the same budgetary pressures, but the nation's most restrictive competitive contracting legislation restricts the Commonwealth's ability to respond. The Shamie Center has published a number of studies demonstrating the legislation's negative impact and will continue to explore the ways in which market forces can improve public services.

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Pioneer's record challenging Massachusetts' restrictive competitive contracting legislation includes three studies of the, then, proposed Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Though we may have lost the war, Pioneer's research helped change the way the facility is now financed - a small accomplishment of which we are nonetheless proud. Now, as the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority contemplates renovating the Hynes, Pioneer wants to remind supporters of the principles at stake - then and now.

• › Flawed Forecasts: A Critical Look at Convention Center Feasibility Studies [PDF file]