In the case of the four contracts that you're referring to, there were two where there was a change in strategy. While the federal government is able to change its procurement approaches as it goes about, I would have expected to see a justification on file as to why they made such a switch, and then, because two contracts were awarded in a non-competitive way, clear documentation as to why McKinsey would have been the only bidder or what exception was being used from the procurement rules to award a contract non-competitively. As we mentioned, more than half of the contracts that we looked at that were awarded non-competitively did not have a good justification on file.
On June 10th, 2024. See this statement in context.