quote:An Arlington-based Halliburton Co. subsidiary that has been criticized for its reconstruction work in Iraq has begun tapping a $500 million Navy contract to do emergency repairs at Gulf Coast naval and Marine facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
The subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root Services Inc., won the competitive bid contract last July to provide debris removal and other emergency work associated with natural disasters.
Towards the end of the article it talks about the demotion of a top-ranked official who protested the awarding of this contract.
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True, but that award has come under a cloud of suspicion and this is a company that in other government bid processes might just have been barred from competing due to poor performance.
But yes, it was a competitive bid process.
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But really, if they do the work at a fair price and get it done well and on time, I'm fine with it.
I do, however, look askance at Halliburton in general and wonder when I see high level officials getting demoted soon after registering complaints about things like large contract awards.
I'm sure there's no connection, though. At least not one we'll discover until the paperwork is all declassified 50 years from now.
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Honestly, I'm glad I have a few dollars invested in Halliburton. All administration contacts aside, we're clearly living in the End Times, and any company stinking of Evil and specializing in disaster aftermath should do just fine. Posts: 37449 | Registered: May 1999
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