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Capitol Connections
May 1, 2006 When companies want contracts, they make friends on the Hill. Successful contractors invest thousands, and sometimes millions, of dollars to build relationships with members of Congress. Companies ask legislators to write letters of recommendation on their behalf when they're trying to win new business. They lobby for money for programs ...
GAO criticizes oversight of contracts to Alaska Native firms
April 27, 2006 In a long-awaited report, the Government Accountability Office criticized the Small Business Administration and other federal agencies for failing to ensure that contracts to Alaska Native corporations comply with procurement law. The report (GAO-06-399) stated that Alaska Native firms often receive no-bid contracts through the 8(a) program for small and ...
Fake Busters
April 15, 2006 Federal agencies, local police and industry are teaming up to stop the sale of counterfeit goods. On a spring-like Thursday in early January, two long-haired teenage girls walk quickly down Canal Street in lower Manhattan. A short man with an accent calls after them. "You want to buy a purse?" ...
Contracting 101
April 15, 2006 A class dispenses advice about life for people hoping to sell to the government. Want to win government business? Eileen Kent has some advice for you. First, show up at a federal agency and wander the halls looking lost until someone offers to take you to the right person. Next, ...
EEOC signs new financial management outsourcing pact
April 11, 2006 The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced a new interagency agreement for financial management services with the Interior Department's National Business Center on Tuesday. The agreement, which was finalized Friday, is worth $11.7 million over six and a half years. That total includes about $1.9 million for conversion to the new ...
Former acquisition official at Defense agency sentenced to 11 years
April 7, 2006 A former senior Defense Department official was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for directing $18.1 million in government funds to a contractor who was secretly giving him $500,000 in cash, vacations and other kickbacks. Kevin Marlowe, 53, former chief of plans, requirements and acquisitions for the Defense ...
Tax Collectors for Hire
April 1, 2006 Some say only IRS employees should be able to pursue overdue debtors. Members of the National Treasury Employees Union, which has been vigorously battling contracting out, shouted their displeasure during a rally in front of IRS headquarters in Washington in early March. "We collect more. We cost less. We protect ...
Gilded Awards
March 15, 2006 Alaska Native corporations land no-bid contracts worth up to $700 million as scrutiny over 8(a) status mounts. Alaska Native corporations, whose competitive edge in getting government business has been under scrutiny lately, received large, no-bid contracts from a procurement shop at the Interior Department in 2003 and 2004. Upcoming congressional ...
Leading the Charge
March 15, 2006 GSA won't divulge specifics, but contractors expect changes in the government's SmartPay program. Federal employees soon could find themselves slapping down new charge cards when they pay for travel expenses and retail items. The General Services Administration is overhauling its SmartPay program, through which agencies bought more than $24 billion ...
Military contractor ordered to pay $10M for Iraq overcharging
March 10, 2006 A jury has ordered Custer Battles, a military contractor, to pay $10 million for fraudulently billing the government on Iraq reconstruction contracts. The jurors in the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Va., found Thursday that Custer Battles and its owners, Scott Custer and Michael Battles, had overcharged the government on a ...
