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Investigators detail mismanagement, fraud in SBA set-aside program
July 17, 2008 Despite repeated assertions by officials at the Small Business Administration over the past two years that internal controls were in place to protect a federal program designed to help small businesses in poor areas, government watchdogs said Thursday that the program is riddled with fraud. Government Accountability Office officials told ...
GAO finds progress with FBI case management system
July 16, 2008
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The FBI has made significant strides in turning around its troubled automated case management system, but additional steps are needed to keep better track of equipment, according to a watchdog agency report released on Tuesday. Comment on this article in The Forum.The Government Accountability Office found that the FBI has ...
GAO finds progress with FBI case management system
July 16, 2008 The FBI has made significant strides in turning around its troubled automated case management system, but additional steps are needed to keep better track of equipment, according to a watchdog agency report released on Tuesday. The Government Accountability Office found that the FBI has improved considerably internal controls over the ...
Buying Time
July 15, 2008 The presidential transition is looming, but chief acquisition officers still have plenty left to accomplish. Chief procurement executives, whether they are career officials or political appointees, will have their hands full during the next few months. With the clock counting down to the presidential transition, and with it, a new ...
Navy to reserve work for firms in 8(a) program
July 14, 2008
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The Navy has signed an agreement with the Small Businesses Administration to set aside services contracts for small disadvantaged firms in the 8(a) Business Development program. Comment on this article in The Forum.Under the agreement, which has been in the works for the past four years, the Naval Sea Systems ...
Navy to reserve work for firms in 8(a) program
July 14, 2008 The Navy has signed an agreement with the Small Businesses Administration to set aside services contracts for small disadvantaged firms in the 8(a) Business Development program. Under the agreement, which has been in the works for the past four years, the Naval Sea Systems Command will allow more than 240 ...
Senate panel supports moratorium on competitive sourcing
July 11, 2008 The Senate Appropriations Committee has joined its House counterpart in passing legislation that would suspend all new competitive sourcing activity. The Senate panel passed the one-year moratorium on public-private job competitions on Thursday as part of the $44.8 billion fiscal 2009 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill. The provision ...
Investigators find Interior contract coding problems
July 10, 2008
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With nearly 50,000 employees in 27 countries and revenues topping $22.7 billion in 2007, John Deere Co. hardly qualifies as a small business. Comment on this article in The Forum.But, that's just how contracting officers at the Interior Department categorized the company, which ranks 98th on the Fortune 500 list, ...
Investigators find Interior contract coding problems
July 10, 2008 With nearly 50,000 employees in 27 countries and revenues topping $22.7 billion in 2007, John Deere Co. hardly qualifies as a small business. But, that's just how contracting officers at the Interior Department categorized the company, which ranks 98th on the Fortune 500 list, on fiscal 2006 and 2007 contracts ...
Weapons dealer pleads not guilty to procurement fraud
July 8, 2008 Editor's Note: This story has been revised to reflect updated information from the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee. A 22-year-old defense contractor pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges that he defrauded the federal government by delivering faulty, decades-old munitions to Afghan security forces. Efraim Diveroli, president and owner ...
