Thank you.
This was reported by Blacklock's on November 27, 2024, in an article with the headline “$25B Contract System Broken”:
Federal contracting is near “the bottom tier” in accountability and fairness, Procurement Ombudsman Alexander Jeglic said yesterday. Jeglic told the Senate national finance committee that irregularities like sweetheart contracting were symptomatic of a “broken system.”
I guess one could never have imagined what we were going to discover over the last two years in procurement. You listed just a number of them in your opening statement.
Can you tell me two things? The first is, how many ongoing reviews is your office undertaking currently? Second, what do you see as needing to happen in order to fix this “broken system”, as you called it?