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Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Fierce lobbying campaign for Sandia contract

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9eIrcyRIQxyenNIT0ZVYUVUZ00/view?usp=sharing

http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060021289

An inspector general report once meant for Department of Energy eyes only sheds more light on a fierce lobbying campaign for the contract to run Sandia National Laboratories.

The special inquiry report, obtained by Greenwire under the Freedom of Information Act, fleshes out allegations that Sandia Corp., the DOE contractor that runs the New Mexico-based labs, used federal funds to influence the government's contract extension for the company.

Sandia Corp. is a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corp. The company first won the contract in 1993, which has since been extended several times. The latest extension came in March 2014 for another two years, with the department planning to open the contract for competitive bids after that.

The Sandia labs contract is worth at least $2.4 billion a year. The contractor wasn't ready to lose that kind of money, according to the IG.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Sounds to me like Sandia doesn't want to be come LLNL or LANL. Who can blame them?

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