Non-competitive federal contracts skyrocket under Bush.
By on May 11th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Non-competitive federal contracts skyrocket under Bush.
$145 billion in federal contracts were awarded without competitive bidding in fiscal 2005, more than double the $67 billion in fiscal 2000. Yet at the same time, “[f]ailures of oversight into contracting procedures have made it possible for fraud, cronyism, and corruption to become prevalent in government,” according to a new report by Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Scott Lilly.
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corporatism, right? what did Mussolini call that? hmmmmm……
May 11th, 2007 at 2:39 pmBill Clinton awarded a non-competitive contract in 1993. He also fired US Attorneys for political reasons.
May 11th, 2007 at 2:39 pmHow much of it went to “Take the Money and Run to Dubai” Halliburton?
May 11th, 2007 at 2:40 pmWhen. The. Hell. Will. We. Impeach?
How many more examples of the Bush Crime Syndicate do we need?
May 11th, 2007 at 2:40 pmGASP!!! You mean the Bushies & friends are WAR PROFITING…NO, say it isn’t so. How could the be? Is there no oversight? (and how do I get in on it, I need money too) oh, I forgot, I am just a regular guy, hehe, I should have known.
Hating the Repukian Mafia daily
May 11th, 2007 at 2:45 pm-A good example of the Freak Market Place under Bush
May 11th, 2007 at 2:47 pmI wonder what they count as a “non-competitive” contract. Is it purely no-bid contracts like KBR, or do they count limited-bid and task order vehicles as well?
May 11th, 2007 at 2:56 pmAh yes, trickle down economics at its best. Nothing like raiding the taxpayers and running off with their money. And to top it all off, these republican scum also wanted to take our social security. Fucking incredible. Can we impeach yet?
May 11th, 2007 at 2:57 pmIt would be really nice if this sort of story actually got any real coverage in the mainstream media, but I’m not holding my breath. Not only is this administration riddled with cronyism, but it’s important to tie this story in with stories about the serious failures in construction projects in Iraq, and the incredible fraud in service projects. Billions of dollars have either simply been lost, or ended up in the pockets of contractors who provided completely inadequate results. The waste and fraud will continue as long as the crooks get away with it.
May 11th, 2007 at 2:58 pmand how does the lack of competitive bidding for contracts help our overall economy while a competitive minimum wage hurts it?
as usual, it’s all about the stock market
May 11th, 2007 at 3:03 pmHello Exley, Patrick1 Valiant(variants), and the rest. This is the party you are supporting. This is destroying this country. You are responsible.
The republicans aren’t the party of fiscal responsibility, family values or small govt. any more. They are the part of corruption and greed. They are selling off this country and you are responsible.
Defend this if you can. Tied in here are the over 100,000 hired guns we are paying to be over in iraq. You are responsible.
Stand up and defend this practice.
May 11th, 2007 at 3:05 pmAS JIMBO DUDE ALWAYS SPEAKS INTEGRITY TRUTH
POLITICAL
LEECHES
POLITICAL
PARASITES
LITERALLY IN A CESSPOOL OF HOODLUMS IN A SEA OF TOTAL CORRUPTION
JACKY KNOWS…. KIND OF CRAP… HERE’S A CONTRACT THAT SHOULD BE
WORTH $100 BUT LETS TACK ON ROB, LINDA, JAMIE, THOMAS, SANDRA’S
COMMISSION AND WE WILL HIT THE TAXPAYER FOR $10,000
NICE JUICY GOVERNMENT CONTRACT……………….
ENOUGH TO DOG GONE MAKE YOU PUKE THESE TOTALLY CORRUPT
May 11th, 2007 at 3:06 pmLEECHES OUT DUDE, BUT YOU CAN’T DUDE… THE SYSTEM IS RIGGED
DUDE RIGGED
Flat tire? With costplus contracting you can put the whole truck in the 4000 x 4000 meter ‘burn pit,’ destroy the truck so that you can make the US purchase another and take 15% of that as profit.
Why did Bill Clinton do this to us?
May 11th, 2007 at 3:08 pmThis is a B.S. story. Of course contracts skyrocketed after 9/11, and of course they weren’t competitive, affirmative action advocates have our government by the balls.
May 11th, 2007 at 3:10 pmway to spend our money, small-government Republicants!
May 11th, 2007 at 3:19 pmThis is a B.S. story. Of course contracts skyrocketed after 9/11, and of course they weren’t competitive, affirmative action advocates have our government by the balls.
Comment by Mr. President
Funny, but government agencies everywhere demand competitive bidding, even on the smallest of contracts. According to capitalists, competition is good (except when they have the monopoly) and generally recognized to be more efficient and more economical than simply handing over contracts to friends.
May 11th, 2007 at 3:22 pmThis country is being looted by big corporations.
May 11th, 2007 at 3:24 pmWhat’s to be expected for electing a guy who couldn’t even make it as a used car salesman?
May 11th, 2007 at 3:24 pmOh! THIS is the reason Turdblossom wanted Turdface (Bush) to be a “war president”!
Imagine that!
Can you say: Car-lyle? Halliburton? SAIC? and on and on and on and on and on and on and on
Remember the FORKLIFTS of CASH Bremer had shipped over to Iraq?
Remember the $9 BILLION that went missing? Remember their off-shore accounts?
Denmark? Rotten in DENMARK? Ha!
May 11th, 2007 at 3:29 pmThis is a B.S. story. Of course contracts skyrocketed after 9/11, and of course they weren’t competitive, affirmative action advocates have our government by the balls.
Comment by Mr. President — May 11, 2007 @ 3:10 pm
No they don’t. 8(a) set-asides are at most 3% of all federal contracts.
May 11th, 2007 at 3:31 pmIf anything, the thing that has the government by the balls is the excessive bureaucracy that makes the competitive process take a year or more.
With the exceptions of the B29 and the Manhattan Project, the US did not use non-bid (cost plus) contracts in WWII, won that in a bit under four years and exited it as an envied and admired superpower. W is losing ground in both the admiration and envy categories, having set our military prowess back by about 10 to 15 years and earning us the enmity of the rest of the World.
May 11th, 2007 at 3:39 pmNo Republican should ever be able to say that they are fiscally conservative without showing how they fought against Bush and his irresponsibility. They should all be challenged every time they try to claim it.
May 11th, 2007 at 3:45 pmI thought we had laws governing the awarding of federal contracts without a bidding process. I thought Haliburton’s no-bid contract for all of the war profiteering was a rare anomaly but I see that I’ve been proven wrong…..to the tune of $145 billion wrong!!
May 11th, 2007 at 3:47 pmAgreed Peter. How they can thump their chests while this is hanging over all of our heads because of them is beyond me.
Trolls can’t muster any defense against this evidence.
This report is why their arguments are hollow.
May 11th, 2007 at 3:52 pmThe Bush crime family
May 11th, 2007 at 4:04 pmhard at werk.
This ain’t no Party in the WH….it’s an organized crime syndicate. Who wants to correlate the no-bid contracts to political donations?
May 11th, 2007 at 4:15 pmHalliburton’s subsidiary KBR (formerly Kellogg, Brown and Root) announced on January 24, 2006 that it had been awarded a $385 million contingency contract by the Department of Homeland Security to build detention camps in the United States.
Since September 11 the Bush administration has implemented a number of interrelated programs that were planned in the 1980s under President Reagan. Continuity of Government (COG) proposals—a classified plan for keeping a secret “government-within-the-government†running during and after a nuclear disaster—included vastly expanded detention capabilities, warrantless eavesdropping, and preparations for greater use of martial law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Inmate_Labor_Program
Wikipedia:
Civilian Inmate Labor Program -
The Civilian Inmate Labor Program is a program of the United States Army provided by Army Regulation 210-35[1]. The regulation, first drafted in 1997 and went under a “rapid act revision” in January 2005, provides policy for the creation of labor programs and prison camps on Army installations. The labor would be provided by persons under the supervision of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Prison camps
The regulation also sets forth policy for the creation of prison camps on Army installations. These would be used to keep inmates of the labor programs resident on the installations.
In January 2006, Kellogg, Brown and Root reported that they had received a contract from the Department of Homeland Security to expand ICE DRO facilities “in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs.”[3] A February news article comments that the “new programs” mentioned could include the Civilian Inmate Labour Program.[4] ICE has “joint federal facilities” with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.[5]
Swift Luck greens:
http://www.democracyforums.com/showthread.php?tid=297
HANNA, WY
May 11th, 2007 at 4:21 pmLatitude: 41.92
Longitude: -106.521944
Perhaps we should urinate all over some cash and pay our taxes with that.
May 11th, 2007 at 7:22 pmAt least WE’D get to piss it away.
HELP!
We’ve fallen…
…and we can’tget up!
…STUPID bi*ches…
May 11th, 2007 at 8:10 pmI give you the new ‘ethical’ Democratic congress.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070511/ap_on_go_co/lobbying_reform;_ylt=AjbErzKgXNik_kwBG65RVMRp24cA
WASHINGTON – House Democrats are suddenly balking at the tough lobbying reforms they touted to voters last fall as a reason for putting them in charge of Congress.
Now that they are running things, many Democrats want to keep the big campaign donations and lavish parties that lobbyists put together for them. They’re also having second thoughts about having to wait an extra year before they can become high-paid lobbyists themselves should they retire or be defeated at the polls.
The growing resistance to several proposed reforms now threatens passage of a bill that once seemed on track to fulfill Democrats’ campaign promise of cleaner fundraising and lobbying practices.
What a joke! The do nothing Congress is, well, still doing nothing!
May 12th, 2007 at 12:33 amGovernment for sale! Get your hot fresh government! Going once, going twice, SOLD….
May 12th, 2007 at 2:09 amNow we have to endure Cheney’s (former CEO of Halliburton and prime initiator and recipient of these gov’t contracts) puss in the headlines for going to the Mideast and being the face of America?
May 12th, 2007 at 10:14 amGet your affairs in order everyone.
I can see a single-bidder contract for oh, say, a space shuttle. In fact, under President Clinton, the only examples of single-bidder contracts I can find were for high-specialty items in top-secret applications. But for a truck? For trailers? For tires? For WATER, for krissake? And NO-bidder contracts, where the contract is awarded WITHOUT A POSTING, are flatly illegal — unless the ex-CEO of Halliburton is illegally running the country anyway, I guess….
Congress should confiscate the assets of every last manager at Halliburton, and all its subsidiaries, including the billions hidden in offshore banks, and apply it back to the trillions in debt that the BushDick war has run up.
May 14th, 2007 at 7:06 amI have filed a lawsuit against Intergraph Corporation for unfair competition. They represented the government in evaluating my company plans, then were given full authority to negotiate the contract with me on behalf of Robins Air Force Base. They then took over, breached my nondisclosure and participated in bid rigging.
I’m in three courts right now as a pro se litigant.
1. Case against Intergraph and the corporations teamed with them, or some way assisted them, was filed in the Superior Court. Currently in discovery phase.
2. Another case against Intergraph was filed in the U.S. District Court for violations of the Sherman Act: Information can be found here: http://www.facingthesharks.com/?p=32
3. A case against Robins Air Force Base, Senator Chambliss, Senator Isakson, Congressman Marshall, Governor Purdue and the Small Business Administration can be found here: http://www.facingthesharks.com/?p=31
These cases also involve H1B visa issues, because on information and belief the company Intergraph teamed with has H1B visas and failed to notify the SBA about their visas, and were able to get 8(a) status. They offered me a huge bribe to drop my protest.
A government employee directly involved in the contract award told me if I didn’t agree not to file suit against the 8(a) company, they wouldn’t award me a contract. I refused to drop my lawsuit. She also told me they would award the contract to Intergraph (who had an unfair advantage because they helped me write the statement of work for my contract)
I wouldn’t drop my protest, so they falsified information to the GAO, hid the requirements and awarded the contract to Intergraph. Believe it or not, they put their threats in writing, and Intergraph admitted in affidavits that they breached my nondisclosure and represented the government, however, they are making me go the whole nine yards in this case and have refused mediation.
Contractors have been told if they associate with me, they will lose their contracts. One refused to quit associating with me, and they took his contracts away. They are working on blackballing the other company that was going to team with me.
Are we having fun yet?
June 3rd, 2007 at 11:26 am