Nazik Modawi and her husband Abboud Wali started a company called Rides Inc.in the Philadelphia area to provide non-emergency transportation services to the aged and people with cognitive and developmental disabilities. By all accounts, the company was successful, growing from three vans to more than 40 vans averaging 600 trips per day. The couple wanted more however. They wanted to get in on some of the largess spewed by the Federal Government and in particular, the Department of Transportation.
New Regulation Formalizes Ombudsman Practice and Identity for IDIQ Contracts
An ‘ombudsman’ is an official charged with addressing and/or investigating the interests of individuals’ or companies’