There is no crisis so bad that government contracting can’t make it worse. Case in point, in addition to providing hotel rooms for thousands of migrants, New York is also providing these same migrants with three meals per day. At least that’s what the $432 million contract says. But in reality, many of those meals, possible even most of them, just wind up in a dumpster because the migrants don’t want to eat them. New York may be paying close to $1 million a month for food that goes into the garbage.
The meals are provided by DocGo, a medical services company that won a no-bid, $432 million contract from the city to provide broad migrant care, despite having had no experience in doing so.
DocGo receives up to $33 a day per migrant for providing three meals a day for each of the roughly 4,000 migrants in its care. From Oct. 22 to Nov. 10, more than 70,000 meals were recorded…
