Contractor Cuts: Booz, Deloitte, Leidos, etc.

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03/02/2025 18:14

Subject: Contractor Cuts: Booz, Deloitte, Leidos, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:I know Deloitte and Booz charges crazy overhead and stop work orders could be issued. Look at the number of Deloitte contract at DOGE site.

And Deloitte and Booz contract with numerous 8a contractors around here. Stop work orders are happening across the board.

We, as a country, could have avoided creating the massive federal infrastructure for contract management and internal project management of contractors. There was a solution to this problem and it meant never privatizing mission critical work.

It’s just shocking to me that people want to blame contracting for waste when privatization was sold as a savior for government waste.

It is just not blaming contractors and you are right there is no structure because that takes time, efforts, resources etc so it is easier to contact work out. They were also picked so that work could be increased and decreased anytime(such like this) without any repercussions of RIF, severance pay etc. Contractors are for-profit and use the weakness of any agency to gold plate their contracts. What is happening should have been looked into a long time ago but noone cares when Govt just keeps on expanding. It is disgusting even if you consider 20% info coming out for USAID contracts is true. Now, everyone suffers.

Two big reasons for contracts - 1. the government cannot make that product, and 2. so they can hire and fire at will which in the past has been near impossible to do for feds. They can ramp up projects quickly and let people go when it's over.

What product? These support contractors don't make any proprietary product or any kind of SMEs. They are just middleman in hiring the talent for Govt. According to someone from Deloitte - we will put a warm body to do anything as long as we are getting paid.

Depends on how savvy the client is, but not far off. In many cases there are actually disincentives to putting together a strong team, accomplishing the work faster for cheaper, because those people are low margin and generate less profit.

Well until this year, this is what we had in our science sector. People who really understood research in charge of managing it. You don’t see many contracting companies getting in the way because the govt was a smart buyer. In the case of defense, the govt contracting officer and their technical rep or even the program manager is not hired for their technical savvy. So sure, the govt gets taken to the woodshed. It’s what happens when you decide to dumb down government and make them only a pathway for the jobs program of their contractors. And yet, here we are going after the part of the whole system that works and having the pentagon cut their research but keep the bloated contracts going.