Report on the Strategic Sourcing Initiative implemented by the Department of Administrative Services (DAS)

Report on the Strategic Sourcing Initiative implemented by the Department of Administrative Services (DAS)

Fiscal Year 2006 IOWAccess Revolving Fund Report. Administrative Services.

Legislatively Mandated Report. Iowa Code §8A.224 – “The department shall submit an annual report not later than January 31 to the members of the General Assembly and the Legislative Services Agency of the activities funded by and expenditures made from the revolving fund during the preceding fiscal year.

Validation of the New Mix Design Process for Cold In-Place Rehabilitation Using Foamed Asphalt, 2007

Asphalt pavement recycling has grown dramatically over the last few years as a viable technology to rehabilitate existing asphalt pavements. Iowa's current Cold In-place Recycling (CIR) practice utilizes a generic recipe specification to define the characteristics of the CIR mixture. As CIR continues to evolve, the desire to place CIR mixture with specific engineering properties requires the use of a mix design process. A new mix design procedure was developed for Cold In-place Recycling using foamed asphalt (CIR-foam) in consideration of its predicted field performance. The new laboratory mix design process was validated against various Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) materials to determine its consistency over a wide range of RAP materials available throughout Iowa. The performance tests, which include dynamic modulus test, dynamic creep test and raveling test, were conducted to evaluate the consistency of a new CIR-foam mix design process to ensure reliable mixture performance over a wide range of traffic and climatic conditions. The “lab designed” CIR will allow the pavement designer to take the properties of the CIR into account when determining the overlay thickness.

Spinning welfare: The gains from process innovation in cotton and car production

Economists and economic historians want to know how much better life is today than in the past.Fifty years ago economic historians found surprisingly small gains from 19th century US railroads,while more recently economists have found relatively large gains from electricity, computers and cellphones. In each case the implicit or explicit assumption is that researchers were measuring the valueof a new good to society. In this paper we use the same techniques to find the value to society ofmaking existing goods cheaper. Henry Ford did not invent the car, and the inventors of mechanisedcotton spinning in the industrial revolution invented no new product. But both made existing productsdramatically cheaper, bringing them into the reach of many more consumers. That in turn haspotentially large welfare effects. We find that the consumer surplus of Henry Ford s production linewas around 2% by 1923, 15 years after Ford began to implement the moving assembly line, while themechanisation of cotton spinning was worth around 6% by 1820, 34 years after its initial invention.Both are large: of the same order of magnitude as consumer expenditure on these items, and as largeor larger than the value of the internet to consumers. On the social savings measure traditionally usedby economic historians, these process innovations were worth 15% and 18% respectively, makingthem more important than railroads. Our results remind us that process innovations can be at least asimportant for welfare and productivity as the invention of new products.

Annual Report for the Iowa Department of Administrative Services, Fiscal Year 2008

Annual Report for the Iowa Department of Administrative Services, Fiscal Years 2004-2006

Report on the Iowa Department of Administrative Services for the year ended June 30, 2006

Report on the Iowa Department of Administrative Services for the year ended June 30, 2006

Iowa Department of Administrative Services Customer Council Archives, 2003

Archive of meeting agendas and minutes for 2003 for the DAS-General Services Enterprise Customer Council.

Iowa Department of Administrative Services Customer Council Archives, 2004

Archive of meeting agendas and minutes for 2004 for the DAS-General Services Enterprise Customer Council.

Iowa Department of Administrative Services Customer Council Archives, 2005

Archive of meeting agendas and minutes for 2005 for the DAS-General Services Enterprise Customer Council.

Iowa Department of Administrative Services Customer Council Archives: Human Services, 2004

Archive of meeting agendas and minutes for 2004 for the DAS-Human Resources Enterprise Customer Council.

Iowa Department of Administrative Services Customer Council Archives: Human Services,2005

Archive of meeting agendas and minutes for 2005 for the DAS-Human Resources Enterprise Customer Council.

Iowa Department of Administrative Services Customer Council Archives: State Accounting, 2004

Archive of meeting agendas and minutes for 2004 for the DAS-I/3 Customer Council.

Iowa Department of Administrative Services Customer Council Archives: State Accounting, 2005

Archive of meeting agendas and minutes for 2005 for the DAS-I/3 Customer Council.