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Originally posted by The_Dude
the first sign of this was all the un-bidded contracts that halliburton got in the rebuilding.
you can buy yourself contracts by donating to gwb/dc.
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This is absolutely wrong. I've addressed this before, so I'll summarize. Halliburton won the competitive emergency services contract known as LOGCAP in 1992, 1999, and 2001. It would be absurd to spend weeks opening up a competitive bidding process while oil fires raged and emergency reconstruction sat idle.
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"To invite other contractors to compete to perform a highly classified requirement that Kellogg Brown & Root was already under a competitively awarded contract to perform would have been a wasteful duplication of effort," the Army Corps of Engineers commander has written.
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KBR is a subsidiary of Halliburton.
It might surprise you that after Halliburton lost the competition for LOGCAP in 1997, the Clinton administration awarded it an unbidded contract to continue its work in Kosovo, in part because of Al Gore's praise. LOGCAP exists because it makes sense to employ private contractors on multi-year contracts for emergency services -- whatever that may entail -- rather than devote military personnel to train for and handle every possible emergency requirement that may arise. It's cheaper and more effective to farm it out in the form of a
competitive contract that companies bid for every few years. Halliburton is apparently good at what it does, seeing that it won the contract under both the Clinton and Bush 43 administrations.
-- Alvin