'Pentagon signs billions in non-competitive contracts'

from rt.com.....

"In a new report issued this week by the Center for Public Integrity’s iWatch News, it is revealed that no-bid contracts inked by the DoD have increased by nearly three-fold in the decade since the September 11 terrorist attacks. In an effort to jump the gone and supply the military with the quickest services possible in an attempt to combat insurgency, the US government has spent billions on defense but could have stood to save a ton had they sought out other contractors.

Documented in the iWatch report issued Monday was a $20 million contract with a Virginia-based company for training Afghan police, which the Pentagon signed off on this very summer, citing “urgent requirement,” without seeking competition.

2008 shows the biggest discrepancy in contract spending in recent years. In that year the DoD signed off on $146.1 billion in non-competitive contracts out of a total of $384 billion. In 2010, non-competitive contracts made up $140.4 billion of the $366.2 billion total. That puts the Pentagon’s competition rate at just over 60 percent, paling in comparison to other state agencies. The Department of Homeland Security, for example, had sought competitive contracts in more than three quarters of their deals last year; the Energy Department had a competitive rate of 94 percent"...........READ MORE