Tom Coburn: “The actual numbers on utilization of this system, if the Senator can bear with me for a minute, the utilization rate…”

“The actual numbers on utilization of this system, if the Senator can bear with me for a minute, the utilization rate right now is 30 percent in the military. In other words, 3 out of 10 facilities that purchase travel are utilizing this. If that is what we wanted when we contracted it, great. But that is not what was in the contract. This same contractor, by the way, had a system developed through the Department of Transportation 6 months ago that is working just fine. I portend that proves the problem with the system is the contracting, not the contractor. We ought to send a signal. Say it is 90 percent, if that is the case, they will make more money doing it on a per- transaction basis than they would under a contract basis.”