Louisiana Developing Office of Debt Recovery Through Private-Public Partnership

Louisiana Secretary of Revenue Tim Barfield told the state Cash Management Review Board Thursday that the state’s new Office of Debt Recovery (ODR) is on schedule to be fully operational within three years. ODR will be an automated, centralized debt collection office that provides collection services for state agencies. It will include a suite of debt collection tools and will work with the Office of the Attorney General and outside collection agencies to perform collection services.

In order to prepare for ODR’s launch, the state is developing a request for proposals for an automated collections system. Deputy Secretary of Revenue Jarrod Coniglio said the RFP should be released by mid-August.

“Today, we’re working with manual processes,” Coniglio said. “The automated system will be fully scalable, and will allow ODR to increase its workload with a minimum of additional human resources.”

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