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| Some Interesting Facts about Government Spending | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 14 2006, 11:17 AM (102 Views) | |
| George K | Oct 14 2006, 11:17 AM Post #1 |
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Ed Morrisey Writes: 1. What percentage of federal contracts come from full and open competitive bids? For the six-year period provided by FedSpending, only 40.61% of all federal contracts come from full and open competitive bids in which multiple bids were received. Another 9.95% comes from full and open bid situations but where only the one bid was received, for a total of 50.56%. That number is not improving, either. in FY 2005, the combined categories only accounted for 47%. 25% of federal contracts come from no-bid awards, and that excludes follow-on contracts. 2. What contractor gets the highest percentage of federal contracts? Lockheed Martin got 6.49% of all federal contracts for FY2005, which came to nearly $25 billion dollars. Only 37% of that came from full and open competition; the rest came from no-bids or excluded-sources bids. The second-highest category came from operation of government facilities, by the way, and not the defense materiel or R&D efforts which came in at positions 1, 3, 4, & 5. 3. What state has four of the top eight Congressional districts for federal grant recipients? Florida. Connie Mack's FL-14 tops the list, followed by FL-13 at #3 (Katherine Harris), FL-2 at #6 (Allen Boyd), and FL-15 at #8 (Dave Weldon). FL-1 (Jeff Miller) comes in at #11. 4. Where does administrative/management support rank in the list of federal contract types? It's the second-highest contract type awarded by the federal government, only outstripped by research and development. We spent $44.9 billion on it in FY2005. This is separate from facilities operation (#4, $21.1B). It far outpaces what we spent on aircraft and aircraft parts (#6, $17.6B) and ships (#19, $6.6B). Bear in mind that the contracts are for outside administrative/management support, in relation to all of the contracts for other purposes. The federal salaries of government employees are not part of these calculations. 5. Which federal contractor won 94.7% of its contracts in full and open competition? You're going to laugh when you read this, but it's ... Halliburton. Halliburton is sixth on the list of government contractors, with $6 billion in FY 2005 contracts, one-quarter of what Lockheed Martin received. Almost all of that came from Army contracts, and almost all of it ($5.4B) went to logistics support. They got 94.7% of their contracts in full and open competition in multibid scenarios, and another 4.7% of them from full and open competition where only the winning bid got submitted. Only 0.6% of their contracts came from any kind of restricted bid process, far away from the overall trend in federal contracting. Did we all pass? And do CQ readers have any questions they would like to see on the next quiz? If so, you know where to do your research. |
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| Ben | Oct 14 2006, 01:27 PM Post #2 |
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Senior Carp
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I have one. [size=23]WHY DOES IT TAKE FIFTEEN YEARS TO FIX ONE SECTION OF HIGHWAY?!?!?!? [/size]
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- Ben "Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing." - Duke Ellington bennieloohoo@gmail.com Or you can just PM me.
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| The 89th Key | Oct 14 2006, 01:29 PM Post #3 |
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The government should cut its spending by 25% at least.
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| CTPianotech | Oct 14 2006, 01:44 PM Post #4 |
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Fulla-Carp
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they should but they won't since they're all a bunch of hopepless money sluts. I used to believe that once the Repblicans got control of things, that this would change, but clearly nope. Just as big a bunch of other-peoples-cash whores, as the other guys.
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