Department of Administration spokeswoman Jocelyn Webster blamed the University of Wisconsin System, which ?was late in turning their submission for this report and DOA did not receive it until May 2012, which delayed the report.? David Giroux, spokesman for the UW System, gives a different account….The new report shows state agencies spent $363.8 million on outside service providers, a 26 percent jump, while the UW System?s spending on outside service contracts fell slightly, to $125.1 million. Giroux speculates that ?reductions in contracting are the result of overall spending cutbacks at UW System institutions.?
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