We can no longer do these 5-year, $100 million---if I ever see those, those are like an instant TechStat trigger for me.
Thomas Coburn
The Public Record
I am glad to hear those are the kind of decisions--we spent $500 million on a cost-plus contract that got us nothing on a handheld device for the Census, and nobody was held accountable for it, nobody got canned.
We have, if you count intelligence organizations, far in excess of $80 billion a year.
Well, if I just added up what he indicated in his testimony, it was well in excess of $30 billion.
One of our problems in purchasing IT--and the reason I asked about fixed-price contracting--is when you have contracting other than fixed price, what happens is either the person that is making the decision or the company that is not…
the reason Danny Werfel, I think, was chosen is because he has demonstrated integrity in everything he has done in the Federal Government.





