Politics: Rules? What Rules?
The US Agency for International Development awarded Stevedore Services of America a delicious contract for $5 million worth of port work, and then noticed that SSA doesn't have security clearance to work in a war zone. SSA's lack of clearance violated USAID contracting regulations.
Did USAID retract the award, and return to the bids to find someone actually qualified to take the work, operating the Umm Qasr port in southern Iraq?
No, instead, USAID deleted the requirement. "The U.S. Agency for International Development justified the change by deciding the situation in Iraq made the clearance unnecessary for seaport rebuilding work." So, hostilities were pretty much over when this happened, you might think, right? Wrong. The award was made on March 24, the first week of the war.
The US Agency for International Development awarded Stevedore Services of America a delicious contract for $5 million worth of port work, and then noticed that SSA doesn't have security clearance to work in a war zone. SSA's lack of clearance violated USAID contracting regulations.
Did USAID retract the award, and return to the bids to find someone actually qualified to take the work, operating the Umm Qasr port in southern Iraq?
No, instead, USAID deleted the requirement. "The U.S. Agency for International Development justified the change by deciding the situation in Iraq made the clearance unnecessary for seaport rebuilding work." So, hostilities were pretty much over when this happened, you might think, right? Wrong. The award was made on March 24, the first week of the war.
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