Return to Article: Report details problems with contract for Iraq health centers
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Having spent time In Iraq and being a Q.A. there, I agree there are big time problems with the contractors, and the quality assurance. Where I was, most of the Q.A. inspections and photos were being furnished by local Iraqi inspectors. They would turn in finished projects and the contractors would demand payment. When and if I got to the project, I would find that the project might or might not be started and in all my time there I never found one project complete. The contractors would claim that the project had been battle damaged after he finished. The places I worked most of the C.O.E. people were temporaries and had never worked for the Corp before and were there for a short while and did not care if projects were finished or not. Just as long as everything looked good on paper and the contractor was happy seemed to be all they cared about.
I had twelve schools dumped on me in one of the real hot towns, and was told by the Temp. Area Engineer that they were complete and to send a report stating that they were complete. I inspected the schools and they were incomplete. I was called in and told in no short words that those schools were complete. I was sent back home because I didn't agree that they were complete. Contractors will get away with anything the inspectors will let them.
In Iraq, if contractors can get a government contract, they will get paid. If they do the work or not they will get paid. If we let them, then whose fault is it?
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Why are American taxpayers forking over $240 million to build health centers in Iraq for Iraqis? Probably for the same reason American taxpayers forked over money to rebuild the privately owned Superdome in New Orleans. Politicians think our money is their money to play with and give away to their friends.
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