Murphy Pays Boston Consultant $23.5M for Coronavirus Work Rutgers Already Doing
BY LILO H. STAINTON, NJSpotlight
New Jersey has committed to spend some $23.5 million over three months to beef up the state’s contact-tracing capacity under a deal signed last week with a Boston-based consulting group doing similar work in New York state.
But it is not clear how the work of the company, Public Consulting Group — as outlined in a purchase order provided to NJ Spotlight under the state’s open records law — will align with efforts already underway at Rutgers University’s School of Public Health to hire, train and deploy up to 1,000 graduate students as contact tracers.
New Jersey officials said Thursday that some aspects of the deal with PCG are still being finalized, but noted the company was one of 64 that applied for the role and it was the “most advantageous” to the state. For the time being, Rutgers will continue to manage the contact tracers it hires, according to the state.
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