Citing abuses, House votes to limit no-bid contracts
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS, March 16, 2007
The House voted to limit no-bid federal contracts yesterday, charging abuses and citing huge losses in contracts for Katrina recovery and Iraq reconstruction.
....... Democrats cited figures showing that federal contracts have nearly doubled in the Bush years, to about $400 billion a year, and that sole-source contracts, with no competitive bidding, grew from $67 billion in 2000 to $145 billion in 2005.