Mandate on the Department of Defense's Contract Award Procedures for Directed Spending Items
GAO-09-113R
Published: Nov 19, 2008. Publicly Released: Nov 19, 2008.
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Section 830 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 directed GAO to compare procedures used for awarding noncompetitive defense contracts for new projects pursuant to (1) congressionally directed spending items or congressional earmarks and (2) the special interests of senior executive branch officials.
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