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Commissioners approve $350,000 DSS records-scanning contract after questioning on cost and bidding
Summary
The board approved a project contract to complete scanning of Department of Social Services records; commissioners pressed staff on cost, rebidding and whether in-house scanning would have been cheaper.
The Pender County Board of Commissioners approved a budgeted purchase to complete an ongoing Department of Social Services (DSS) records-scanning project, with staff describing a multi-phase, two-year effort to digitize decades of case files.
Staff presentation: Meg Moser (interim or department lead in the packet discussion) told commissioners the project began about two years earlier and that previously smaller phases had been completed. The current phase budgeted for the fiscal year totals roughly $350,000, and staff said the project includes not only high-speed scanning but…
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