About the July 15th article: "Lie, Cheat, Steal, Bid..."

Hi,

I kept your July 15th article: "Lie, Cheat, Steal, Bid..." 
by William Van Hefner to review again at a latter date - that 
date being today.

Why? 

I wanted to know ITS IMPACT.

I learned later Government Services Administration (GSA) "suspended" all 
"new" business with MCI (formerly WorldCom) after its own investigation 
concluded that MCI "lacks necessary internal controls and 
ethics." (Reportedly, the GSA spends more than $1 billion
annually with MCI.)

CONGRATS on contributing to the GSA review.

I myself wrote an article similar to that on May 25th in response to an 
article entitled "Bureaucrats accused of favouritism"
in the Ottawa Business Journal.
http://eh-ok.ca/GOOGLE/Bribed-basedFavoritismInTheAwardingOfGovernmentContracts.htm

In Canada, when people want to sell to the Government they have to 
go through MERX, a (needless) convoluted, costly, meaningless 
process because when it comes down to it the Minister of the De-
partment can arbitrarily do what s/he wants regardless of the 
point system used to award contracts and regardless of the repeated 
claims that there is NO (bribed-based) favoritism involved in the 
awarding of contracts. 

What I like about your article was the author's, John Wayne's,shoot-
from-the-hip tell-it-like-it-is approach -- something we Canadians 
just don't do and we allow ourselves to think we are somehow a little 
smarter than our North-American compartriots to the South. :D

THANKS AGAIN for a great article that had, I'm sure, a lot 
of RESONANCE among those who run the GSA.

Best wishes,

Kenneth Selin
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