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November 27, 2019 By cs

New York-based company was caught allegedly selling Chinese-made hardware to the DoD

Aventura Technologies, based out of Long Island, New York, was just busted by the government after allegedly having fraudulently sold security gear to the U.S. military for years, racking up millions in federal contract money.

According to Aventura’s website, which as of November 12 is still up and running, the company claimed to be a “true single-source manufacturer providing end-to-end hardware and software solutions.”

Some of these hardware solutions included ground-based radar, turnstiles, and closed-circuit television systems, all of which the company claimed were manufactured in America. Between 2007 and 2018, Aventura reportedly supplied various branches of the U.S. military with over $20 million dollars of said equipment.

From November 2010 to the present day, it’s estimated that Aventura pulled in over $88 million in sales to both the government and the private sector.

The sting that eventually brought down Aventura was a few years in the making, including an anonymous tip in 2017, and the discovery of Chinese lettering on a body camera by Air Force personnel the following year.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/gearscout/irons/2019/11/14/this-new-york-based-company-was-just-caught-allegedly-selling-chinese-made-hardware-to-the-dod/

February 20, 2014 By AMK

China makes another bid to join WTO procurement agreement

China offered a revised bid to enter the World Trade Organization’s Government Procurement Agreement, which guarantees members mutual private-sector access to government procurements worth more than a low threshold.

This comes in as China’s fifth bid since 2007.

In December, 2013, at the annual session of the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade, China agreed to submit a revised offer in 2014 that would be in line with those of other GPA members, a December 2013 Office of U.S. Trade Representative fact sheet says.

The WTO GPA allows private sector access to government procurements worth more than $202,000 between countries who have joined the agreement. Certain services are barred from WTO GPA coverage, including services in support of the overseas military, dredging, federally funded research centers and ship repairs; the WTO also allows procurements to be excluded from agreement coverage on national security grounds.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.fiercegovernment.com/story/china-makes-another-bid-join-wto-procurement-agreement/2014-02-13

January 13, 2012 By AMK

SBA, to be elevated to Cabinet level, is among agencies Obama wants consolidated

On Friday (Jan. 13, 2012) President Obama announced he will ask Congress for the power to merge six federal trade and commerce agencies, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The WSJ report said Obama will ask Congress for “reorganizational” power. The last president to have this power was Ronald Reagan.

The new power would allow the president to propose mergers in order to save money and make the government work more efficiently, according to the report.

The plan would allow Obama to propose mergers that would be “guaranteed an up-or-down vote from Congress within 90 days,” the report said.

The six agencies Obama wants to consolidate include the Commerce Department‘s core business and trade functions, the Small Business Administration, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Export-Import Bank, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the Trade and Development Agency.

The report cited a White House official who said the merger would save taxpayers around $3 billion over the next decade by eliminating duplicate overhead costs.

In addition, between 1,000 and 2,000 jobs would be eliminated through attrition, according to the WSJ.

Aventura Technologies, based out of Long Island, New York, was just busted by the government after allegedly having fraudulently sold security gear to the U.S. military for years, racking up millions in federal contract money.

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