Benefits-funding alternatives

Increase revenues without raising taxes

Strategies that increase government revenues without increasing taxes deserve close attention. While significant new revenues can be realized through advanced collection case management and workflow tools and centralized debt collection, jurisdictions often cannot direct scarce dollars to pay for the upfront costs of such technology improvements.

A number of CGI clients have been able to eliminate upfront capital investments through our benefits-funding model. These fixed-price, performance-based projects are funded from a percentage of increased revenues. No monies are paid to CGI until and unless the client has certified an actual increase in revenues from the project.

Our benefits-funded clients are able to delay and spread out the costs over a period of years, avoiding negative impacts on general funds and department budgets. Then, once the fixed price is paid, 100 percent of the additional revenues, typically tens of millions per year, remain with the government. Instead of following a traditional approach to acquiring, installing and maintaining new IT capabilities, these agencies have used CGI's benefits-funding model to transform their collections operations and certify more than $2.5 billion in additional revenues.