The City of Paducah, KY needs to award a contract to repair flood walls on the Ohio River. Some of this work is done in partnership with the US Department of the Army. The Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for managing the system of flood control on the river. As The Lexington News reports the city has negotiated a bid to do the work that actually came in below the estimated amount....
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By Law the Department of Defense must submit to Congress annual reports on the major acquisition programs. The report chosen is called the Selected Acquisition Report (SAR). These are normally submitted when the President sends the full budget to the Hill. SAR reports are also submitted quarterly for programs that have cost or schedule issues. The latest sets of these reports were just...
Premiere Credit of North America is a debt-collection agency located in Indianapolis, IN. They have the contract with the Federal Government to collect on student loans. As the Indystar.com website reports they are planning a major expansion of personnel and space. One would assume that due to the recent downturn in the economy the company is preparing for a wave of problems with people...
As in the last post I wrote about the former civil servant being convicted of fraud for creating a contract job demonstrates there is a lot of movement between civil service and contractors. A good example of this is that President-elect Obama has hired a former Clinton appointee, Martha Johnson, who worked at the General Services Administration (GSA) in the 90’s to be the head of his...
A retired Federal employee of the Department of Interior, Jimmy W. Mayberry who lives in Texas, was sentenced to a fine and probation for violating US Government Conflict of Interest laws. The Department of Justice released a statement about the case and it is available at MarketWatch.com here. Mr. Mayberry, a rather senior civil servant at the Minerals Management Service, colluded with his...
The Department of Homeland Security has implemented a new rule through the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) to make companies doing business with the Federal Government run their workers through a verification database. The Washington Post reports on the implementation of this new program starting in 2009. The database which should tell employers if an applicant is in the US legally has...
ABC News of Australia reports that the US Navy has purchased a ship from the Australian company Austal. The high-speed troop transport will be built in a US shipyard and the contract has future options for 9 more vessels. The initial contract value is over $2 B Australian. While it is not unique for the US military to buy overseas designed equipment, this certainly represents one of the...
The Washington Post recently conducted an analysis of contract awards to small businesses by the US Department of Defense. As reported they found that many contracts were awarded to companies that were characterized as small. Congress has set requirements for the Department to award a certain percentage of their contracts to small business. The general gist as to why this is happening is...
WashingtonTechnology.com has ranked the top 100 Defense contractors by revenue. Here are the Top 10 as of 2008: 1. Lockheed Martin 2. Boeing 3. KBR 4. Northrop Grumman 5. General Dynamics 6. Raytheon 7. SAIC 8. L-3 Communciations 9. EDS Corporation 10. Fluor Corporation Boeing, GD, Lockheed, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon provide big ticket ships, aircraft and ground systems as well as support...
Channel 69 news in Pennsylvania reports that International Battery received a contract worth over $2 M for lithium batteries. These will be used to supplant regular alkaline batteries commonly used by the US Military in great numbers. The hope is that the longer lasting lithium ones will require recharging less often requiring troops to run their vehicle engines less. One of the persons...
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