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Contract Oversight
GSA Scandal Sheds Light on Small Business Contracting Fraud
J.D. Harrison, The Washington Post
Government Oversight
Head of GSA Resigns Over Conference Flap
Carrie Johnson, NPR
New GSA Chief Pledges Swift Curbs on Conferences
Lisa Rein, The Washington Post
GSA Turmoil Will Live on in Congressional Hearings
Charles S. Clark, Government Executive
National Security
Your Slice of the Pentagon Budget
Philip Ewing, DoD Buzz
Canada Auditor General Blasts F-35 Program
Michel Conte, AFP
4,500th F-16 will be Delivered on Tuesday
Bob Cox, Sky Talk
USAF's HH-60 Rescue Choppers Will Only Be 50 Percent Mission Ready by 2015
Defense Tech
DoD Sees 'Emerging Stability' on F-35, Despite Recent Difficulties
Carlo Munoz, The Hill
Open Government
Read: State Department's Secret '06 Memo Warning Against Torture
Spencer Ackerman, Danger Room
Federal Government Increases Online Access to Conflict-of-Interest Data
OMB Watch
Financial Oversight
Regulators Move Closer to Oversight of Nonbanks
Annie Lowrey, The New York Times
GSA has been implementing a new procurement policy that favors two large contractors and 13 small ones while causing massive layoffs and business closures at hundreds of other small businesses throughout country.
GSA is receiving a kickback of a 2% fee of all the money they funnel to these few contractors. In the last two years, GSA received a kickback of $9,463,066 from these 15 contractors on total sales of $473,153,324.00!
Plus GSA is rewarding contractors that are known to be cheating the system. Even after the whistle has been blown, GSA Officials continue the let the contractors reap the rewards of the privilege to work with the government instead of cutting them off. So yes besides the wasteful spending, there is fraud and mismanagement going on as well.
Posted by: Russ Nielsen | Apr 12, 2012 at 06:34 PM