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12
Aug
2009
Part 3. Putting Private Contractors on Record - The Hidden Costs of ...

88 days ago

Part 1 described one of the memoranda issued by the Obama administration to end the abusive privatization that existed under the Bush kleptocracy. Part 2 examined a second memo also issued July 29, by OMB Director Peter R. Orszag. This memorandum, also issued July 29 by Peter Orszag, discusses hidde ...

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11
Aug
2009
Part 1. Putting Private Contractors on Record . . . at long, long, long last

88 days ago

Amazing though it may seem, private contractors were awarded contracts worth $500 billion last year . . . and yet the federal government continued its long practice of letting private contractors off the hook and not demanding that they be held accountable. This is hardly secret information. Unbosse ...

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01
Jun
2009
Oh, Pew! The Pew Center on the States does highway privatization

160 days ago

The Pew Center on the States has decided to get into the business of opining on highway privatization, most recently with a report that uses the Pennsylvania Turnpike privatization process as a lens to assess highway privatization in general. So how did it do on its assessment of assessment? I've al ...

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27
May
2009
Would you re-hire this private contractor?

165 days ago

Let's say you were hiring an employee to do a specific and important job. What information would you take into consideration in making your decision? Education? Training? Sounds reasonable. Would you ask for references? Would you contact at least some of those references? Now let's say that you are ...

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28
Apr
2009
Bringing DoD work back home

194 days ago

It's a trickle now, but DoD is gradually bringing work back in-house. And the reason? To lower costs. It seems like , oh, so six months ago, that the government still kept up the drumbeat that privatizing was always better. So it feels startling to see government documents that state doing work in-h ...

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19
Apr
2009
Robert Gates and the end of military contracting as we've known it . . . and ...

202 days ago

Among the recommendations made April 6 by Defense Secretary Robert Gates for the FY 2010 budget was a commitment to convert thousands of contractor jobs into government jobs. Why? To save money. Gates tells us that using contractors adds layers off complexity and costs, leading to problems in govern ...

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27
Mar
2009
DOD Contractors and the Unasked Who, What, Where, When And Why Questions

226 days ago

You may recall that the basic reporter questions are who, what, where, when, and why. They also seem to apply elsewhere. Or not. When the DOD hires private contractors, it seems to make no effort to answer these basic questions. In a new study, one of many on this issue, GAO concludes that the DOD f ...

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