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FOXNews.com - Report: DHS Spent $34 Billion on Bad Contracts - House of Representatives
Over the two-year period, spending on noncompetitive contracts jumped from $655 million to $5.5 billion, the report concluded.
Questionable contracts highlighted in the report included:
—$1.2 billion to install and maintain luggage screening equipment at commercial airports that had a high false alarm rate.
—$915 million on nearly 26,000 mobile homes and trailers to house hurricane victims and relief workers — none of which could be sent to disaster zones in Louisiana and Mississippi because of prohibitions on their use in flood plains.
-$19 million for Transportation Security Administration office space for 140 employees that includes 12 conference rooms, seven kitchens, a fitness center, and $500,000 worth of artwork and decorative items.
[By my calculations, that's $135714.29 per person. Why not just buy them each a friggin house!]
Homeland Security chief procurement officer Elaine Duke told the House Government Reform Committee that part of the problem stemmed from a lack of department officers to oversee the contracts. In 2004, congressional investigators concluded that each procurement employee was responsible for overseeing an average of $101 million worth of contracts.
"Balancing the appropriate number of DHS contracting officials with the growth of DHS contracting requirements has been a challenge," Duke said in written testimony to the committee.
All emphasis added by me.
I'm not the only one who saw this boondoggle a million miles away. Each procurement employee is overseeing $100MM in contracts? Good luck.
The problem is, now we're stuck with DHS. It's never going anywhere. It should never have been created.
Democrats could exploit Bush's insane spending as a weakness in midterm and in '08 but they are even worse when they hold the purse strings.
FOXNews.com - Report: DHS Spent $34 Billion on Bad Contracts - House of Representatives
Over the two-year period, spending on noncompetitive contracts jumped from $655 million to $5.5 billion, the report concluded.
Questionable contracts highlighted in the report included:
—$1.2 billion to install and maintain luggage screening equipment at commercial airports that had a high false alarm rate.
—$915 million on nearly 26,000 mobile homes and trailers to house hurricane victims and relief workers — none of which could be sent to disaster zones in Louisiana and Mississippi because of prohibitions on their use in flood plains.
-$19 million for Transportation Security Administration office space for 140 employees that includes 12 conference rooms, seven kitchens, a fitness center, and $500,000 worth of artwork and decorative items.
[By my calculations, that's $135714.29 per person. Why not just buy them each a friggin house!]
Homeland Security chief procurement officer Elaine Duke told the House Government Reform Committee that part of the problem stemmed from a lack of department officers to oversee the contracts. In 2004, congressional investigators concluded that each procurement employee was responsible for overseeing an average of $101 million worth of contracts.
"Balancing the appropriate number of DHS contracting officials with the growth of DHS contracting requirements has been a challenge," Duke said in written testimony to the committee.
All emphasis added by me.
I'm not the only one who saw this boondoggle a million miles away. Each procurement employee is overseeing $100MM in contracts? Good luck.
The problem is, now we're stuck with DHS. It's never going anywhere. It should never have been created.
Democrats could exploit Bush's insane spending as a weakness in midterm and in '08 but they are even worse when they hold the purse strings.
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