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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNo-bid U.S. government contracts jump 9 percent, despite push for competition
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/no-bid-us-government-contracts-jump-9-percent-despite-push-for-competition/2013/03/17/9f6708fc-8da0-11e2-b63f-f53fb9f2fcb4_story.htmlPresident Obama in 2009 told federal agencies that no-bid contracts were wasteful and inefficient. Four years later, his administration spent more money on non-competitive contracts than ever before.
Federal agencies awarded $115.2 billion in no-bid contracts in fiscal year 2012, an 8.9 increase from $105.8 billion from 2009, according to government data. The jump unfolded even as total contract spending decreased by about 5 percent. Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Raytheon were top recipients of sole-source contracts.
Those top Pentagon vendors and other large contractors can draw on established relationships with procurement officers to claim a greater share of non-competitive work, said Robert Burton, former acting administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy under George W. Bush.
It highlights a growing problem in the procurement system, said Burton, who represents contractors as a partner at Venable in Washington. The pie is shrinking, but at the same time, the number of non-competitive awards has increased. Thats a bad combination.
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No-bid U.S. government contracts jump 9 percent, despite push for competition (Original Post)
xchrom
Mar 2013
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Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)1. K&R nt
bemildred
(90,061 posts)2. They like sweetheart deals and kickbacks, not competition.
All that stuff about competition is bullshit, they like monopolies, like any good capitalist.