Trump border wall could bypass competitive bids under emergency declaration, experts say
Trump border wall could bypass competitive bids under emergency declaration, experts say
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-border-wall-could-bypass-competitive-bids-under-emergency-declaration-experts-say/2019/02/15/64a42aae-3157-11e9-86ab-5d02109aeb01_story.html?utm_term=.deb47174c45b
By Tracy Jan , Mark Berman and Andrew Ba Tran at the Washington Post
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President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to fund the construction of a border wall could open the possibility of circumventing a competitive bidding process to award a multibillion-dollarcontract to a favored company, some government contracting experts warned Friday.
The most extreme scenario, contracting experts say, is one in which Trump flexes his presidential powers, channels his background as a real estate mogul, and selects a winner as if hosting “The Apprentice.”
“The president does have the prerogative to circumvent all of the competitive requirements by claiming a national emergency,” said D. Kent Goodger, a retired federal contracting officer. “He can go right to a favored source to build a fence.”
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Neither the administration — nor Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, both of which oversaw previous contracts related to the border wall — has outlined what type of contracting process it will follow.
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has privately agreed to kick back a big chunk of the dough to the grifter in chief who picked them for the contract.
Duh.
and 'trumpette' it as a transactional win for him. If we could just clone Trump a billion times, his theory follows, we could put a little Trump at every market transaction that takes place, so he could enable the transaction in America's favour, and the US would be better off.
