Talk:No-bid contract
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This article about Halliburton no-bid looks biased.
I have repeatedly read that Halliburton was given the temporary no-bid because they had a previous competitive bid in place from 2001 under LOGCAP. Here is another perspective:
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/richlowry/2003/09/18/168541.html
Also note that Clinton's administration gave Halliburton a no-bid contract for the Balkans, but for some reason that fact was left out of this article on wikipedia...
Also, most if not all of the Hurrican Katrina contracts were not No-bid Contracts. They were Federally Pre-qualified contracts. FEMA holds pre arranged contracts with large contractors for Disaster relief everywhere in the United States.
Shaw pumped the water out of New Orleans in 17 days. Estimates were 80 Days. You don't do a fast 3 week bid cycle starting the day the hurricane hits.
The LOGCAP III contract was not "no-bid". It was competitively bid by Fluor and Parsons, as well as KBR. It doesn't take a lot of research to find it, either. Articles claiming (or implying) that Halliburton got a two-billion-dollar no-bid contract in Iraq simply handed to them because of cronyism within the Republican Party are based on baised fabrications and assumptions.
In fact, LOGCAP III, as the name implies, is the third contract of its kind in recent decades. The first LOGCAP (Logistics and Civil Augmentation Program) contract was awarded to Brown & Root Services, which later became part of KBR, for support of US troops during the Balkans operations in the 1990's, and was awarded by the Clinton administration. LOGCAP II was awarded elsewhere, I believe to Parsons.
It's the individual task orders that are not bid out, not the contract itself. People who don't know the difference often confise them - This is how you can always tell the difference between someone who knows what he or she is talking about, and someone who just saw a story on CNN and has an axe to grind with Halliburton or Dick Cheney.
In have searched for a link between the Clinton administration and no bid contracting, and no, I have found none. So I have decided to remove the Kosovo and Bosnian war (see also)removed. When a person that makes assumptions without proof, like the ass that wrote the past few paragraphs, they do not do justice to public forum. This person is a liar or a prick, who knows. If someone would like to find a link and add it, so be it. This is coming from someone who reads literature and doesn't watch Fox News. Who are trying to get footage of terrorists or any brown people happy that the democrats won the midterm elections.
What does '48 CFR Ch. 1, Part 6.' mean? I assume it refers to a set of laws ( probably U.S. ) but it's not obvious to a non expert in this field. 217.7.209.108 09:01, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
