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No Time for Competition
By Tom Shoop | Monday, September 26, 2005  |  09:56 AM

Initial figures on Katrina contracting, courtesy of the New York Times:


  • More than 15 contracts exceed $100 million.

  • More than 80 percent of $1.5 billion worth of FEMA contracts were awarded with limited or no competition.

  • Largest contract so far: $568 million to AshBritt, a Pompano Beach, Fla., company that was a client of the former lobbying firm of Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi.




"We are very apprehensive about what we are seeing," Homeland Security IG Richard Skinner told the paper.


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