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Council delays vote on $1.96 million benefits-administration contract, asks for one-week follow-up
Summary
Council members pushed a three-year, $1,958,400 contract with WEX Health Inc. for city employee benefits administration off for one week and asked the human resources director for a written cost/alternatives analysis, including what a one-year extension would cost and what it would take to bring the function in-house.
Detroit — The Detroit City Council Committee of the Whole paused final action on a three-year, $1,958,400 contract with WEX Health Inc. to provide benefits-administration services for the city's roughly 10,215 employees, asking Human Resources to return with more information in one week.
"This is a contract for our benefits administration," Human Resources Director Denise Starr told the committee, saying WEX handles open enrollment, COBRA administration and a volume of employee inquiries that the city does not have in-house systems to process. "Without this contract, we would have to go back to paper processing ... we just do not have the capacity, plus we do not have the…
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