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June 25, 2007
Oops: Another KBR Cost Overrun
KBR forgot to keep accurate records of gasoline distribution, quartered employees in living spaces that may be larger than necessary and served meals that appeared to cost $4.5 million more than what was being eaten, according to a new Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction audit. SIGIR selectively distributed the report to favored news outlets on Sunday in anticipation of a Monday release.
The report is all about one KBR task order in the Green Zone, the place where order is supposedly the best -- and one assumes where wartime exigencies are the least.
The Washington Post reveals from a reading:
KBR managed its housing at its Camp Hope inside the Green Zone, resulting in most of its employees living in more spacious quarters than those they support.... Ninety percent of KBR employees were assigned to trailer spaces without roommates, meaning KBR employees appeared to have better housing than Army captains.
The SIGIR report surveys a "small sliver" of KBR's Green Zone business -- a task order for supplying gasoline, food services, and housing and various morale and recreation services.
KBR failed to use an internal meter in gas pumps that tracks how much fuel is used, according to the report.
When auditors looked at the database in September 2006, it showed that 12,622 liters had been issued for December 2006 -- "a future date and an obvious impossibility," the audit said.
Here's The Washington Post's curtain raiser to the report: Audit of KBR Iraq Contract Faults Records For Fuel, Food.
Posted by davidphinney at June 25, 2007 01:18 AM
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