Out-of-Grade Slips Ready?

We highly doubt this is going to work out well: 

• Chicago police officers were relieved of one of their most grisly responsibilities 25 years ago: hauling dead bodies to the medical examiner’s office.

  Cook County initially took over the job, then handed it off to a series of private companies with mixed results — and a few scandals along the way.

  Now, the city’s decision to award a five-year, nearly $4.5 million contract for body removal to a single Northwest Side funeral home is raising questions — one police supervisor wondered whether “a funeral home is equipped to handle the city’s volume.”

  Wallace Harrison Funeral Home was the lowest of three bids for the lucrative contract.

And  just how did they get this Contract?

• At one point, GSSP was charging Chicago $915-per-body, the largest removal fee paid by any big city in the nation. Wallace Harrison Funeral Home will charge the city $172-per-body.  

Talk about your "low ball" bid. 

And the manpower in place to fulfill the Contract? 

• Wallace-Harrison told the Sun-Times that she has 20 transport vehicles and 20 employees. But the affidavit she filed with the city last fall indicates that her funeral home has just five full-time employees, including herself.

  The affidavit lists only one employee by name: Nakia Wallace-Harrison. A second manager is listed, but not identified. The three remaining employees are listed as “TBD.” 

As in, "No one has been hired for the position yet." 

This has disaster written all over it, but suddenly, the wagon just might be a financially attractive job. One body moved is D-3 pay for the tour.