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Costs Skyrocket As Department of Homeland Security Runs Up No-Bid Contracts
Costs Skyrocket As DHS Runs Up No-Bid Contracts
$2 Million Security Project Balloons to $124 Million
By Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 28, 2007
The project started in 2003 with a $2 million contract to help the new Department of Homeland Security quickly get an intelligence operation up and running.
Over the next year, the cost of the no-bid arrangement with consultant Booz Allen Hamilton soared by millions of dollars per month, as the firm provided analysts, administrators and other contract employees to the department's Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection offices.
