Robert Brodsky at Government Executive reports: “[T]he rich are getting richer. During the past five months, 17 of the largest government contractors have won more than $1.6 billion in Recovery Act contracts—more than all small businesses combined.”
His analysis shows that 17 companies among the top 100 recipients of government contracts in fiscal 2008 won more [...]
A company called Smartronix will get $18,000,000 to redesign Recovery.gov, the federal Web site intended to track where federal Recovery Act spending goes.
The government purchased technology for a similar site (with a somewhat smaller scope), USASpending.gov, from the non-profit group OMB Watch for only $600,000. A private company already provides information on Recovery Act [...]
The Washington Post had an interesting article late last week about how hard it is for the federal government to follow the money it is spending under the Recovery Act, even though transparency and accountability were heavily doubted during debate on and passage of the bill.
Enter Onvia, a company that supplies nationwide information about opportunities [...]