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March 24, 2000 - Virginia-based company wins contract to provide child support enforcement in seven judicial districts starting May 1
The Child Support Enforcement (CSE) program in the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services (SRS) has entered into a contract with DynCorp, a technology and professional services company, to provide child support enforcement services in seven judicial districts. The judicial districts include the Topeka, Lawrence, Ottawa areas and much of southeast Kansas.
The contract takes effect May 1. The cost of the contract, which includes child support enforcement work in the 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 11th, 14th, and 31st judicial districts, is $2,468,100 per year for five years.
DynCorp, the second largest employee-owned technology and professional services company in the United States, currently employees about 16,000 people in 550 locations worldwide. The company is based in Reston, Virginia.
DynCorp Management Resources (DMR) Inc., one of four units within the company, is responsible for the Kansas contract.
Under the contract, DMR will set up regional offices in Topeka, Independence, and Columbus.
The bid from DMR was one of five proposals received. One other company bid on all the judicial districts up for contract renewal, while the other three bids were for a portion of the districts up for renewal.
MAXIMUS, which currently holds the contract for CSE collections in the seven judicial districts, did not chose to bid on the latest request for proposal, but will concentrate on other aspects of its operation. MAXIMUS is working with DMR to make sure there is a smooth transition.
A key member of DMR’s transition team is a former Kansas child support program director, the managing attorney for DMR is from Kansas, and the deputy project manager is a Kansas resident with experience working on child support automation projects. Other high level DMR managers have extensive child support enforcement experience from both a state and federal prospective.
Other management and staff required to implement this contract will be hired from Kansas, and DMR is in the process of interviewing MAXIMUS employees for jobs with the company.
Total child support enforcement collections in Kansas increased to $142 million in 1999, up from $130 million in 1998.
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