MSNBC is running a line on their screen that Halliburton won a $2billion contract without bidding. The folks there are either stupid, lazy, left-wing, or all of the above.
Haliburton, along with other companies, bid on a five-year support contract with the government to provide services on an as-needed basis. They are in the third or fourth year of this contract, which Halliburton bid on and won. This kind of support contract is common in the Defense Department so that the standard job-specific bidding can be bypassed on short-notice assignments. It is like keeping a lawyer on retainer.
For MSNBC to report that this job was assigned without a bid process is lying, unless they are as stupid and lazy I as I often believe they are. At the risk of having someone point out ‘You just want to bash Clinton,’ I’ll let you know another dirty secret: Clinton’s administration contracted Halliburton to provide support in Kosovo at a time when Halliburton didn’t have the support contract! Was that bad? No. There is not another company in the world which has the rapid response capabilities that Halliburton does. They are the best at what they do, and they do a lot.
On the same topic, has anybody noticed that the Pentagon is the entity checking into whether there were spending irregularities? The networks would not even know about this concern if an auditor in the Defense Department hadn’t said to its contractor, ‘This doesn’t look right.’ So where does the accusation of complicity lead?
Took the day off and was just reading up some blogs and thought I would post here
Comment by Melanie — April 11, 2004 @ 6:12 pm
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Comment by pop up killer — June 25, 2004 @ 1:07 pm
Was just bored and thought I would post
Comment by pop up killer — August 6, 2004 @ 3:17 pm