[CPEO-BIF] Large "small" contractors on the Gulf Coast

[lsiegel@cpeo.org]

Defining Small

By Griff Witte and Renae Merle
Washington Post 
October 20, 2005


The government's list of small businesses receiving Katrina-related
federal contracts along the Gulf Coast includes one of the largest
debris-removal firms in the country and a billion-dollar corporation
that boasts former vice president Dan Quayle on its board of directors.

Neither company is a small business by any conventional standard. But
because of a loophole in federal regulations, a company can be counted
as one if it was once small even if it is not now, raising questions
about the statistics the government has been citing to defend itself
from charges that it has favored big companies in the massive Hurricane
Katrina cleanup.

The two companies, AshBritt Inc. and IAP Worldwide Services Inc., have
between them Army Corps of Engineers contracts worth hundreds of
millions of dollars in Gulf Coast recovery work. Because both firms were
small when they won their first contracts, the Corps of Engineers said
it still considers work performed under those deals as work by small businesses.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/19/AR2005101902270.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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Fax: 650/961-8918
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