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May 17, 2018 By AMK

Officials mishandled trans-Africa airlift contract, Pentagon watchdog finds

Just days after the Pentagon released a post-mortem on a fatal ambush of U.S. combat troops in Niger last year, the department’s watchdog criticized U.S. Africa Command for mishandling a contract for conducting emergency evacuation services and airlifting cargo across the continent.

Defense Department rules required the command to conduct what is called a Service Requirements Review Board to analyze and verify its requirements before U.S. Transportation Command awarded a $900 million contract for trans-Africa airlift support.

The command’s contracting staff “did not take responsibility as the requiring activity” for the contract, with Transportation Command officials assuming that as long as they received funding and a performance work statement, “the requiring activity had validated the requirements,” said the report dated May 8.

 

Keep reading this article at: https://www.govexec.com/defense/2018/05/officials-mishandled-trans-africa-airlift-contract-pentagon-watchdog-finds/148229

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition workforce, airlift, airlift support, DoD, emergency contracting, IDIQ, Pentagon, scope of work, trans-Africa, Transportation Command, U.S. Africa Command

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