Our Work - Contract Oversight
TweetThe use of contractors to provide services to the federal government has grown dramatically since the start of the last decade. According to USAspending.gov, in FY 2000 contract spending was approximately $200 billion, and in FY 2011 contract spending exceeded $535 billion, the majority of which was spent on services. POGO investigations have found that these contractor services cost almost two times more—and in the case of the Pentagon as much as six times more—what it would cost if the same work was performed by a federal employee. The move to “smaller government” by outsourcing work has in fact created an enormous shadow government of contractors that are largely or entirely dependent on taxpayers for their revenues.
Testimony of Danielle Brian, POGO's Executive Director, before the Senate Democratic Policy Committee
September 10, 2004
Share-in-Savings Contracts Circumvent Congress' Appropriations Authority and Hide Behind Contractor Proclaimed "Savings" to the government
August 31, 2004
Pentagon Auditor Calls for Halliburton to be Financially Penalized until it Accounts for Taxpayer Dollars
August 16, 2004
GSA's Deal with WorldCom: Bad Business for Taxpayers
January 8, 2004
Testimony of POGO's Danielle Brian on "Contractor Debarment and Suspension: A Broken System," before the George Washington Law School
November 20, 2003
Testimony of POGO's Eric Miller on Proposed KC-767A Tanker Lease
September 3, 2003
POGO Letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on briefing attended by POGO Executive Director Danielle Brian
January 17, 2003
Cost Accounting Standards Board, Dr. Rein Abel, Regarding Accounting for the Cost of Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)
November 15, 2000
