Download or read book Federal Emergency Management Agency s Contracting Abuse written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities and Transportation Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Emergency Management Agency s Contracting Abuse written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities and Transportation Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The central focus of these hearings will be the awarding of a contract to the Bradford Communications Corp. for the purpose of providing FEMA with training materials specifying how emergency response should deal with radiological emergencies. To begin with, we will be addressing the integrity of FEMA contracting procedures. We will seek answers to the question of whether competition for the contract award was unfairly minimized and then eliminated, and whether there was justification for FEMA's awarding this contract sole-source. We will be also looking at the training course itself which, according to our investigation, was deemed to be dangerous by such agencies as the Health and Human Services and the Department of Transportation. We will want to determine whether FEMA had this information before the contract was signed; whether FEMA personnel deliberately deceived other Federal agencies regarding the contract award; whether, in fact, FEMA took steps to prevent criticism by these other Federal agencies; and whether such steps were taken under the heavy hammer of political pressure"--Pages 1/2.
Download or read book Federal Emergency Management Agency s Contracting Abuse written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities and Transportation Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improvements Needed in FEMA s Disaster Contract Management written by Richard L. Skinner and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses the the mgmt. of FEMA¿s disaster contracts; safeguards used against fraud, waste, and abuse; commun. and coordination within FEMA and with other fed. agencies and states regarding disaster contracts; and the extent to which contracting polices and procedures were followed. Most of the contracts reviewed had one or more of the following five issues: Goods and services purchased were either not needed or underutilized; Funds were expended on questionable acquisitions; Establishment of pre-positioned contracts for recurring disaster goods was needed; Acquisition decisions were not adequately documented; and Monitoring of contractor performance needs improvement. Illustrations. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Disaster Contracting written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, and the 2017 California wildfires, federal agencies entered into disaster-related contracts worth about $9.5 billion, according to data as of June 30, 2018—the latest and most complete data at the time of GAO's review. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) obligated about $2.9 billion of this total through advance contracts, which it establishes prior to a disaster to rapidly mobilize resources. FEMA obligated an additional $1.6 billion through post-disaster contracts, which are established after disasters hit.
Download or read book Federal Emergency Management Agency written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Activities of the House Committee on Government Operations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hurricane Katrina written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane Katrina destroyed or damaged 134,000 homes and 10,000 rental units in Mississippi alone. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in part responded by providing displaced individuals with temporary housing in the form of mobile homes and travel trailers, placed on both private property and at FEMA-constructed group sites. In 2006, FEMA awarded 10 contracts in Mississippi to maintain and deactivate (MD) the housing units and 5 for group site maintenance (GSM). GAO was asked to investigate whether there were indications of fraud, waste, and abuse related to FEMA's oversight of these 15 contracts. GAO analyzed FEMA's issuance of task orders, tested a representative sample of monthly maintenance inspections payments, prepared case studies detailing the costs related to trailers placed at group sites, and investigated improper activity related to the contracts.
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Download or read book Government Abuse written by William Sims Curry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government contracting is plagued by nefarious, amateurish, and criminal behavior. By awarding government contracts to corporations as compensation for lavish gifts and personal favors, the United States government fails to serve the public interest effectively and honestly. William Sims Curry identifies and categorizes multiple deficiencies in how government contractors are selected, and proposes how reforms can be instituted.This book is based on extensive research. Curry sifted through two years worth of contractor claims maintained by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) regarding improper behavior of federal government agencies during the contract award process. He identified additional government contracting failures through review of media stories, inspector general reports, court cases, and press releases by government investigatory agencies.Much of this abuse originates from the mandated but ineffective practice of color coding rating proposals and a subjective ratings system. Curry proposes replacing the current practice with a scoring system that weighs contractor selection criteria according to the government's needs. This, along with the other procurement reforms Curry recommends, offers promise for an alternative to the fraud, waste, and incompetence currently rampant in government contracting.
Download or read book Hurricane Katrina written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Limitation on Yearend Obligations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legislation and National Security Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Hurricane Katrina waste fraud and abuse worsen the disaster hearing written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Emergency Management Agency s Response to the 2008 Hurricane Season and the National Housing Strategy written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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