To save on costs and avoid any more fund mess, the Commonwealth Ports Authority has decided against outsourcing the agency\u2019s payroll processing to another company.<\/p>\n
CPA comptroller George Palican said in an interview Wednesday that the agency has opted to handle its own payroll processing rather than hire a company to do the job, which it used to do with Information Data Services. That company currently faces federal investigation.<\/p>\n
And to make the job easier, he said that CPA had just purchased a computer software for accounting.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not outsourcing. We just want to do an in-house accounting. Its money saving,\u201d said Palican.<\/p>\n
IDS allegedly failed to transfer over $350,000 of CPA\u2019s retirement contributions to the CNMI government.<\/p>\n
IDS was also handling the payroll processing of other companies on Saipan including Saipan World Resort, Hotel Nikko Saipan, and Pacific Islands Club.<\/p>\n
The Office of Public Auditor has joined the investigation, looking in particular whether IDS had paid its clients\u2019 taxes.<\/p>\n
Meantime, Palican said that it bought the accounting software MAS 90 for $4,714 from White Coconut Computer Service.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe asked for quotes from three companies for payroll software. The lowest bid was from White Coconut,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said CPA used to pay IDS $431 per payroll from September 2002 up to last month.<\/p>\n
CPA employs 220 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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