審計員問題Blackwater合同： 但它是否是真正地$107百萬？
由 伊麗莎白Olson | Blackwater全世界，私有安全供應在伊拉克受到察視的承包商和它的附屬公司也許不正當地獲得了超過$100百萬在為小企業意味的合同，根據聯邦審計員。
一個報告由小企業管理的總檢查員，發布在7月，被發現Blackwater和它的會員，包括總統空中航線，在財政年度贏取了39個合同2005年， 2006年和2007年儘管徵兆公司比數字由美國使用了更多指定了。 政府。 在某些情況下，報告認為，公司比考慮到也有更高的收支一家小企業。
Blackwater是安全一位主要提供者為美國外交官在伊拉克并且是一個國會聽證會的主題在一次Blackwater射擊以後在巴格達上9月左17伊拉克人死。
Blackwater和總統空中航線， EP投資根據在Moyock，北卡羅來納和擁有的兩個， McLean，弗吉尼亞，被贏取為公司留出的31個合同與收支$6.5百萬或和一個另外的合同為公司沒有超過$750,000在年收入。 那些合同，總計，被重視了在$2.1百萬。
另外，總統空中航線，運載乘客和貨物，贏取了差不多$107百萬在為收支是沒有的公司預留的合同比$25.5百萬或有較少比1,500名雇員。
雖然大多被質詢的合同由防禦部門授予，最初的決心公司具有資格作為小企業是否由小企業管理做。
公司可能避開了小企業大小標準，因為他們根據審計員計數了許多工作者，當獨立承包商，不是雇員，給他們超出1,500雇員天花板設置了在有些合同。
總檢查員的辦公室發現了那Blackwater，并且其他公司的大小和收支也許有「介入的誤傳」，并且建議代辦處也許要「確定持續接受小企業set-aside合同是否Blackwater會員是適當的」。
當敵手企業質詢了2006合同為直昇機服務對總統空中航線，根據公司是太大，航空公司提供了數據28 Blackwater附屬的個體只有總共715名雇員。
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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