Small group of contractors draws 35 percent of IT dollars

[The Straight Story]

Small group of contractors draws 35 percent of IT dollars
By Daniel Pulliam
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A review of the government's information technology contractors reveals that nine of the top 10 are primarily service-oriented companies and 35 percent of the government's fiscal 2004 technology dollars went to the top 10 contractors.


Of the $50 billion spent by the agencies in fiscal 2004, 73 percent of the money, or $36 billion, went to 150 contractors, according to the Reston Va., IT consulting firm INPUT.


The list of contractors is based on an analysis of contracts worth more than $25,000 from the Federal Procurement Data System, the General Services Administration's central repository of government purchasing records. It does not include subcontractor payments or spending by the intelligence community, Congress, the judiciary, or quasi-governmental organizations such as the U.S. Postal Service.


The top three contractors - Northrop Grumman Corp., Science Applications International Corp. and Lockheed Martin Corp. - each received $2.5 billion or more in IT contracts, according to INPUT.



Northrop Grumman: $3,198,547,000


SAIC: $2,587,875,000


Lockheed Martin: $2,547,677,000

http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0405/042905p1.htm

[Robert Oak]

1. they are missing Arthur Anderson (Accenture)

Homeland Security contract, 10B...this is IT branch spun out
from Arthur Anderson (Enron fame)...who is incorporated offshore,
who's primary business is offshore outsourcing our jobs
and who can't engineer their way out of a paper bag.

10B.

SAIC managed to create completely worthless software for the FBI
for a tune of 170M.

http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=46&contentid=1797

and of course are awarded with more contracts.

Yet...here we are with thousands of extremely talented engineers out
of work.

One would think this was a no brainer...esp. for our existing DoD
contractors seem to value the security clearances more than the skills...getting hired is a nightmare due to the backlog on clearances..
and they don't want to wait 9 months to a year to get someone cleared...
(which is a legitimate complaint for by that time the project is up!)

So, home come all of these engineers, who probably would pass with
flying colors the security clearance requirements aren't having
those pushed through and being hired as well as being assisted
in forming US companies to compete on these contrracts...

I can't imagine a DoD oriented startup doing worse than blowing 10B contracts so the jobs can be outsourced or 170M on software where
not one line of code is usable.