Washington (AP) - Hundreds of millions of dollars in federal contracts for Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts that were handed out with little or no competition will be re-bid to prevent any waste or abuse, FEMA chief R. David Paulison said Thursday.
"I've been a public servant for a long time, and I've never been a fan of no-bid contracts,'' Paulison told a Senate panel investigating the Federal Emergency Management Agency's response to the hurricane.
"Sometimes you have to do them because of the expediency of getting things done. And I can assure that you we are going to look at all of those contracts very carefully.''
"All of those no-bid contracts, we are going to go back and re-bid,'' he said.
It's about time, although I'm not sure if they will actually follow through on this, or if this is just some publicity stunt. Some of those guys would have to give back money if they are not the ones that eventually get the contracts that they've already been paid for. And we all know THAT'S not gonna happen in this lifetime!
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