Emergency contracting in the us federal government
Abstract
Emergency contracting has risen to the fore in both interest and importance in the US since September 11, 2001 (9/11). Most recently, the US government's response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita piqued the interest of both the Executive and Legislative branches of the US government and their respective oversight bodies. This paper briefly reviews the literature of emergency contracting with special focus on the statutory and regulatory framework for emergency contracting, identifies some contracting solutions established by the US government to deal more effectively with emergency contracting, and pinpoints some problems faced by emergency contracting agencies and anomalies of their emergency contracting practices.
Citation
Drabkin, D. and Thai, K.V. (2007), "Emergency contracting in the us federal government", Journal of Public Procurement, Vol. 7 No. 1, pp. 84-103. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOPP-07-01-2007-B004
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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