A procurement reform program was Philadelphia's submission to the "Mayors Challenge" this year (http://mayorschallenge.bloomberg.org/index.cfm?objectid=184AE090

A procurement reform program was Philadelphia's submission to the "Mayors Challenge" this year (http://mayorschallenge.bloomberg.org/index.cfm?objectid=184AE090-8B49-11E2-92C8000C29C7CA2F http://mayorschallenge.bloomberg.org/index.cfm?objectid=184A...). It lost out to Providence, RI's proposal (I have argued elsewhere that Providence's proposal, while noble, is probably a boondoggle: http://wellformedness.com/blog/on-the-providence-word-gap-intervention/ http://wellformedness.com/blog/on-the-providence-word-gap-in...)