Government abuse
Subtitle: fraud, waste, and incompetence in awarding contracts in the United States
By: William Sims Curry
Publisher: Transaction Publishers; Routledge
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New Brunswick (U.S.A.)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781412853712
Subjects: Public contracts; Contracting out; Government purchasing; Law and legislation; Fraud
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Defining and narrowing the problems of fraud, incompetence, waste, and abuse; title: Government of the corporations, by the unions, and for the special interests; title: Exemplary actions by government and non-government entities for combating fraud, incompetence, waste, and abuse; title: Protests sustained by the GAO for proposal evaluation errors; title: Protests sustained by the GAO for other deficiencies; title: Weaknesses and strengths of selected proposal rating processes; title: Imperfections in the DOD's efforts to improve its process for selecting contractors; title: Single score best-value selection process eliminates ambiguity; title: Scandalous socioeconomic contracting practices; title: The absurdity of waiving all procurement controls during disasters; title: Compendium of measures for minimizing fraud, incompetence, waste, and abuse in the federal government.