"A textbook case in how to screw up a procurement": Navy contract for security barriers roiled the waters.

Set-Aside Alert, June, 2007

A Navy investigation of a contract for security barriers to protect U.S. warships uncovered alleged criminal fraud, conflicts of interest and an unlawful 8(a) pass-through contract.

Yet after more than four years, no one has been prosecuted, the head of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service told a congressional subcommittee.

The contract for boat security barriers grew out of the terrorist attack on the destroyer U.S.S. Cole in Yemen on Oct. 12, 2000. It was canceled in 2003 after the GSA inspector general uncovered evidence of irregularities. (SAA, 1/23/2004)

The House Armed Services Committee's seapower and expeditionary forces subcommittee held a hearing June 6 after the Washington Post reported on the contract.

The...

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