No-bid contracts, bribery and fraud

posted September 25, 2007
No-bid contracts, bribery and fraud

No-bid contracts, bribery, fraud — that's just the start of the alleged improprieties under investigation by the Army, which has launched two investigations into contracting problems across the service.

Army Secretary Pete Geren said Aug. 30 these efforts would determine what went wrong. But he has already identified one factor: a lack of acquisition professionals.