Return to Article: Acquisition panel considers ethics in contracting
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As with most cases, it appears ethics and enforcement of such only applies to the little people or the employees at the bottom of the ladder. As a COTR I am instructed to not even sit down for a lunch with a contractor even though I have little authority which would benifit the contractor. The contracting officer has that kind of power. I have been told that even if I pay for the lunch it might provide the wrong appearance. When I asked what I was supposed to do if the contractor sat down next to me at lunch, I was told I should inform him/her that he/she shouldn't do so and not to let it happen again. AS TO THE BIG BOYS WITH THE REAL POWER.........CHECK OUT THEIR UNFETTERED ACCESS TO GIFTS AND BENEFITS....Also payments by large corporations in the guise of payments for speeches right after the politician leaves office.
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Carl would make a good communist because they want the government to control all aspects of every organization and his ethics call is a way to achieve that in a unconsitutional way. If the government controls the behavior of the contractor without doing it specifically in the contract terms or through Congressionally passed law, they are totally out of line!
What we need is far more oversight and audit of the process and a seperation of the process from one person to another. Currently a single person can decide to fund a contract or not. Even if acqistion awards a contract, if the office to use the contract does not like the contractor, they simply do not fund the contract beyond the initial amount awarded. Therefore, initial awards are relatively low and may or may not be used in the future depending upon whether the General likes who got the award or not.
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