The New York Times’ Michael Cooper reports that the Dept. of Transportation has severed ties with the contractor it hired to conduct the analysis of drug tests of employees regulated by the federal agency. Workplance Compliance evidently reviewed drug tests by pilots, train operators and other transportation employees without using a licensed physician to do the reviewing. This relatively minor incident of contracting-gone-bad raises the bigger issue of whether it’s really cheaper for federal agencies to farm out tasks like drug testing to the private sector. The “big government” of more government employees and fewer contractors could mean a more directly accountable government.

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