Experts say COVID-19 contracts will cost taxpayers far more money in the long-run because fraud is not being weeded out of the system upfront.
Golden State has denied the claims and the federal government declined to intervene. However, the pending lawsuit did not stop the VA from giving the California firm another $168,000 in April to provide hydroxychloroquine – the antimalarial drug now deemed ineffective by the Food and Drug Administration in the fight against COVID-19.
The government relies on whistleblowers, often inside the contracting system, to ferret out waste. U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said that’s a big part of the problem. “The system is not working like it should. Companies can often defraud the government, get caught, pay a settlement, and still make a profit,” said James Tate, a Cincinnati attorney who specializes in False Claims Act cases. “There is little incentive to follow the law when you can make more money breaking it.”In normal times, government contracting officials follow rigorous rules designed to ensure open competition for federal dollars.
Under President Obama, contracting officers handled an average of about 374 contracts a year. A rapid rise of new contracts under the Trump administration without any significant staff increases left each responsible for 1,765 contracts by 2019, nearly five times the workload, according to research from Ben Brunjes, an assistant professor at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington.
“It’s not so much that cutting corners, but you’re not going to go through the normal process you would under non-pandemic times,” said Trevor Brown, professor and dean of the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at Ohio State University, where he teaches classes on managing public organizations.
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