Leading military contractors jacked up the price of several everyday products after receiving non-competitive contracts, costing taxpayers more than $1.3 million in apparently unnecessary markups, according to Pentagon contracting data acquired by Responsible Statecraft.
The Pentagon’s $52,000 trash can
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/06/20/the-pentagons-52000-trash-can/
3 Comments
experbia@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y
There's a really good way for the DOD to avoid getting price gouged like this and it's [ ... To view the rest of this comment from your government-associated IP address, please remit payment of $45,000 to help cover the data storage cost of the message ... ]
Kittybeer@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 3y
How am I surprisingly not surprised that I'm surprised I'm not surprised by this?
Spaceman2901@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
That’s just Area 51 funding.