Report says awarding of contracts without bids is up under Bush

[Kadie]

Report says awarding of contracts without bids is up under Bush

By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer

Posted: Thursday May 27th, 2004, 3:10 PM
Last Updated: Thursday May 27th, 2004, 3:10 PM


WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of government contracts awarded without competitive bids has increased slightly during the Bush administration, according to a report Thursday by the senior Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee.

Noncompetitive contracts accounted for 37 percent of federal procurement spending in 2003, compared with 33 percent in 2000, the last year of the Clinton administration, said the report issued by Rep. Henry Waxman of California.

Overall spending on federal contracts increased over those years, from $205 billion in 2000 to $291 billion in 2003, but spending on noncompetitive contracts grew even faster, according to the report. In 2000, $67 billion was spent on some 32,500 noncompetitive contracts, compared with $107 billion through more than 43,000 noncompetitive contracts in 2003.

With U.S. military forces occupying Iraq and policing Afghanistan, the bulk of the noncompetitive contracts were award by the Pentagon. The Army, Air Force and Navy accounted for 55 percent of all federal contract spending in 2003, and for 73 percent of spending on federal contracts awarded without competition.

Waxman said the practice put favored contractors ahead of taxpayers.

http://www.bakersfield.com/state_wire/story/4715916p-4765805c.html

[Supply Side Jesus]

1. I'll file this under...

"The sky is blue" file. :P
Andrew Jackson is smiling tonight.

[goclark]

2. Surprise, surprise

Is there anything that these crooks don't have their hand in?
They have turned this country inside out in four years.
Before,it was not so "in your face" as it is now.
Now all you have to do is read the first lines of any issue and they are taking the side of the rich,the white, the powerful,the war mongers and the religious right.

When will it end!

[struggle4progress]

3. kick

:kick:

[shanti]

4. and another

:kick:

[Jim Warren]

5. Of course, that

fits very nicely with this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1679343

[truthisfreedom]

6. no way. NO WAY! there is absolutely no way that corruption is involved

under this administration. ABSOLUTELY NO WAY!