MBTA inventory system ‘completely broken,’ official says

Describing a dysfunctional MBTA inventory system that does not meet industry standards, transit authority officials and a consultant made the case Monday to outsource the operations.

"We have a completely broken system," MBTA Chief Procurement Officer Gerard Polcari told reporters Monday ahead of an MBTA Fiscal and Management Control Board meeting. He said the problems was "decades" in the making and outsourcing would be a "game-changer."