审计员问题Blackwater合同： 但它是否是真正地$107百万？
由 伊丽莎白Olson | Blackwater全世界，私有安全供应在伊拉克受到察视的承包商和它的附属公司也许不正当地获得了超过$100百万在为小企业意味的合同，根据联邦审计员。
一个报告由小企业管理的总检查员，发布在7月，被发现Blackwater和它的会员，包括总统空中航线，在财政年度赢取了39个合同2005年， 2006年和2007年尽管征兆公司比数字由美国使用了更多指定了。 政府。 在某些情况下，报告认为，公司比考虑到也有更高的收支一家小企业。
Blackwater是安全一位主要提供者为美国外交官在伊拉克并且是一个国会听证会的主题在一次Blackwater射击以后在巴格达上9月左17伊拉克人死。
Blackwater和总统空中航线， EP投资根据在Moyock，北卡罗来纳和拥有的两个， McLean，弗吉尼亚，被赢取为公司留出的31个合同与收支$6.5百万或和一个另外的合同为公司没有超过$750,000在年收入。 那些合同，总计，被重视了在$2.1百万。
另外，总统空中航线，运载乘客和货物，赢取了差不多$107百万在为收支比$25.5百万是没有的公司预留的合同或有较少比1,500名雇员。
虽然大多被质询的合同由防御部门授予，最初的决心公司具有资格作为小企业是否由小企业管理做。
公司可能避开了小企业大小标准，因为他们根据审计员计数了许多工作者，当独立承包商，不是雇员，给他们超出1,500雇员天花板设置了在有些合同。
总检查员的办公室发现了那Blackwater，并且其他公司的大小和收支也许有“介入的误传”，并且建议代办处也许要“确定持续接受小企业set-aside合同是否Blackwater会员是适当的”。
当敌手企业质询了2006合同为直升机服务对总统空中航线，根据公司是太大，航空公司提供了数据28 Blackwater附属的个体只有总共715名雇员。
But the inspector general found that Blackwater had hired more than a thousand independent contractors and treated them as if they were regular employees, with scheduled shifts, for example, which called the size determination into question. The report also said the Small Business Administration should have “attempted to reconcile discrepancies” in the data Blackwater provided.
Anne Tyrrell, Blackwater’s spokeswoman, called the report “unnecessarily speculative,” and said the “classification of security personnel as independent contractors is reasonable, correct and legally protected.” She said that “all contracted personnel serving on government contracts in Iraq for Blackwater work under the direct operational control of the United States government.”
The report, which was requested last March by Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California who heads the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, asked the inspectors general of the Defense Department and other contracting agencies to “review these contracts to determine whether misrepresentations were made” to obtain them.
In a letter to Waxman, the SBA said it had relied on the figures provided by Blackwater and Presidential Airways.
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~Chip’s note: The SBA IG report states that these small business contracts “could have involved potential misrepresentations by Blackwater.” The SBA IG report states that Blackwater “obtained a total of33 contracts during Fiscal Years 2005 through 2007, totaling $2,188,620, which may have involved misrepresentations to obtain the contract.” The report also finds that “it is possible that misrepresentations took place” on the remaining six contracts, totaling $107,311,356.
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