Based on your report, for some of the money that was paid, work was actually done. You have no basis to know that any work wasn't done. All we know is that our standards weren't met, in the sense that they couldn't document, through time sheets or other things that were required under the contract, that the work was done.
I'm not arguing that it wasn't shoddy. I'm not arguing that we should be giving contracts to consultants to do HR hiring that we could do ourselves, but we have to put things in perspective. That's what I want to get from you.