Comptroller General Reports to Congress on Audits of Defense Contracts: Hearing, 89-1, May 10 - July 8, 19681965 - 1075 pages |
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... reasonable period . In some way the process should be speeded up , but I cannot speak for the Department of Justice and the problems they have in making their decisions . In the particular case that you and I discussed some time ago an ...
... reasonable period . In some way the process should be speeded up , but I cannot speak for the Department of Justice and the problems they have in making their decisions . In the particular case that you and I discussed some time ago an ...
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... reasonable basis for concluding that it should not be accorded finality under the applicable standards for judicial review of administrative decisions under contract provisions making such decisions final and conclusive on questions of ...
... reasonable basis for concluding that it should not be accorded finality under the applicable standards for judicial review of administrative decisions under contract provisions making such decisions final and conclusive on questions of ...
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... reasonable value of the services performed . The Assistant Secretary of Defense also states that we have criticized the Department of Defense in certain cases in which cost - type contracts were con- verted , during the course of ...
... reasonable value of the services performed . The Assistant Secretary of Defense also states that we have criticized the Department of Defense in certain cases in which cost - type contracts were con- verted , during the course of ...
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... reasonable- ness of price from Alcoa . Our experience to date has been that Alcoa , for all practical purposes , has not been willing to negotiate with re- spect to its price proposals , even when AEC contractors have felt that the ...
... reasonable- ness of price from Alcoa . Our experience to date has been that Alcoa , for all practical purposes , has not been willing to negotiate with re- spect to its price proposals , even when AEC contractors have felt that the ...
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... reasonable . Nothing in our prior experience with our other con- tractors , where we also have difficult tolerances , indicated that 60 percent was reasonable . For these reasons we agree with GAO that this was an unreasonable profit ...
... reasonable . Nothing in our prior experience with our other con- tractors , where we also have difficult tolerances , indicated that 60 percent was reasonable . For these reasons we agree with GAO that this was an unreasonable profit ...
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ABBADESSA Accounting Office action administrative Air Force aircraft Alcoa amount Army Assistant Secretary Audit Agency audit reports auditors automatic data processing award BANNERMAN basis believe CAMPBELL Chairman claim committee Comptroller Congress contract audit contracting officer contractor correct cost data cost or pricing DAHLIN decision defense contracts Department of Defense Department of Justice determination disallowance DOUGLAS draft report equipment fact Fairbanks-Morse False Claims Act final report fixed-price contract furnished GAO audit GAO reports GAO's HOLIFIELD HORTON IGNATIUS involved issue judgment Justice Department KELLER LUEVANO matter Melpar ment military million MUNVES Navy NEFFNER NEWMAN operations payments percent performance position pricing data prime contractor problem procedures procurement profit Public Law question RACUSIN reasonable recommendations record referred request responsibility ROBACK Secretary of Defense statement statute subcommittee subcontract submitted testimony tion U.S. Army voluntary refund Westinghouse
Popular passages
Page 90 - All claims and demands whatever by the Government of the United States or against it, and all accounts whatever in which the Government of the United States is concerned, either as debtor or creditor, shall be settled and adjusted in the General Accounting Office.
Page 41 - Act shall include a clause to the effect that the Comptroller General of the United States or any of his duly authorized representatives shall, until the expiration of three years after final payment, have access to and the right to examine any directly pertinent books, documents, papers, and records of the contractor or any of his subcontractors engaged in the performance of and involving transactions related to such contracts or subcontracts.
Page 48 - The comptroller general shall investigate, at the seat of government or elsewhere, all matters relating to the receipt, disbursement, and application of public funds...
Page 573 - Most funds now spent on research are channeled to private contractors through the Department of Defense, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Atomic Energy Commission.
Page 697 - Sec. 3167. It shall be unlawful for any collector, deputy collector, agent, clerk, or other officer or employee of the United States to divulge or to make known in any manner whatever not provided by law to any person the operations, style of work, or apparatus of any manufacturer or producer visited by him in the discharge of his official duties...
Page 512 - Contractor further agrees to include in all his subcontracts hereunder a provision to the effect that the subcontractor agrees that the Comptroller General of the United States or any of his duly authorized representatives shall, until the expiration of three years after final payment under the subcontract, have access to and the right to examine any directly pertinent books, documents, papers, and records of such subcontractor, involving transactions related to the subcontract. The term "subcontract...
Page 576 - Office in accordance with the principles and procedures applicable to commercial corporate transactions and under such rules and regulations as may 'be prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United States.
Page 41 - Congress at the beginning of each regular session, a report in writing of the work of the General Accounting Office, containing recommendations concerning the legislation he may deem necessary to facilitate the prompt and accurate rendition and settlement of accounts and concerning such other matters relating to the receipt, disbursement, and application of public funds as he may think advisable. In such regular report, or in special reports at any time when Congress is in session, he shall make...
Page 697 - ... the amount or source of income, profits, losses, expenditures, or any particular thereof, set forth or disclosed in any income return...
Page 338 - Contractor, was then of said Corporation; that said Contract was duly signed for and in behalf of said Corporation by authority of its governing body, and is within the scope of its corporate powers.