Archive: July 22, 2007 - July 28, 2007
Real Estate From Sea To Shining Sea
One of the great amorphous contracting issues facing our federal government is how to handle real estate. Everybody knows the U.S. is one of the greatest landlords in human history. But no one -- and I mean no one -- really knew until a few years ago just what...
By Robert O'Harrow | July 27, 2007; 6:12 AM ET | Comments (0)
Complicated Protest
The protest over a deal at the Defense Information Systems Agency shows just how baroque federal contracting has become -- and how much money is at stake. Computer Sciences Corp., Unisys, Northrop Grumman Information Technology Inc. and IBM Business Consulting Services--Federal complained about DISA's method for determining who got...
By Robert O'Harrow | July 26, 2007; 6:05 AM ET | Comments (0)
Tale Of Two Cities
In some sad way, the story by my colleague Dana Hedgpeth last week did not come as a surprise. She reported that a major power plant in Baghdad was not functioning after the U.S. government paid millions to get it up and running, according to a July 18 report...
By Robert O'Harrow | July 25, 2007; 6:04 AM ET | Comments (0)
Fool Me Twice
For years, government folks have been talking about the need to hold contractors accountable for their past performance. Looks like there's still a lot of work to do. Last week, the House Government Management, Organization and Procurement Subcommittee heard about a litany of problems from witnesses involving poor performers...
By Robert O'Harrow | July 24, 2007; 6:18 AM ET | Comments (0)
Data Processing, Security Breach
My colleague Renae Merle got an interesting disclosure from SAIC on Friday. It seems the federal contracting giant wanted to fess up to a security breach involving personal information about hundreds of thousands of people in the military and their families. The press release was headlined "SAIC Addresses Possible...
By Robert O'Harrow | July 23, 2007; 6:23 AM ET | Comments (0)
