Contractors Managing Contractors

A Federal Times story on an IG report about federal contractors managing other contractors in Iraq helps illustrate why OGE Director Ric Cusick considers contractor conduct a significant issue:

The Defense and State departments doled out nearly $42 million in bonuses to five contractors managing other contractors in Iraq, but they had scant documentation to justify the bonuses, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) auditors found.

With little and even contradictory information on the $527.5 million worth of contract support contracts, "SIGIR was unable to conclude how well the approach of using contractors to manage other contractors worked," the Oct. 29 report said.