It makes contract oversight look shoddy.
Some of my colleagues have advocated doing away with the Department of Energy.
The performance bonus was a rite of passage. It was not being based on how well they had performed under the contract.
Do not hold your breath on getting budget commitments 10 years down the line. We have a hard time getting budget commitm...
This hearing will focus on contract management by the Department of Energy (DOE).
I think it was very helpful.
Wouldn't we be better off to go with the higher estimates, though, than the lowest?
Shouldn't we be trying to influence this process in terms of an oversight function?
This heavy reliance on contracting is troubling because the Department of Energy's contract management has been on the G...
No one questions the need to do this work, but when hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are at stake, we need to ma...
the investment in small-scale will pay for itself multi-times over rather than abandoning something that you go to large...
With that, I want to thank you all for participating today. This Committee is going to continue to make sure that the sm...
Typically, agencies that have the least amount of oversight by Congress have the worst record of thinking that what GAO ...
Only if we were combining up to put a criminal in jail.
All through our government there has been an easy way to augment personnel by doing these program support contracts.
So we are paying USIS several hundred million dollars a year to do background checks, and we are paying them $45 million...
I am tired of this assumption being made that contractors are cheaper, because I have been at this for 6 years.
they are getting a premium for something we paid for.
