As part of a `competitive' bidding process, the four companies that received no-bid contracts from FEMA to provide temporary housing to hurricane Katrina victims last year received similar contracts from FEMA this week to assist with future disasters.
It has been reported that Homeland Security Inspector General Richard Skinner will criticize those contracts in a report due out in October. Those no-bid contracts, originally valued at $400 million had ballooned in cost to $3.4 billion over the last 11 months. The companies involved are Shaw, Bechtel, CH2MHill, and Fluor Enterprises--all apparently major contributors to the Republican Party.
The results of this competitive bids were reported in an article in this morning's
Washington Post. Two other organizations, Partnership for Temporary Housing and Disaster Solution Alliance, also received contracts under this bidding procedure.
The anticipated IG report was requested by Democratic Senators Byron Dorgan and Mary Landrieu last May.
Don't these guys learn anything from their mistakes?