BBC: Halliburton, the company once headed by US vice-president Dick Cheney, is out of the running for a $600m US government contract to rebuild Iraq. (Thanks to Adam for the pointer.)
The contract in question is the big infrastructure rebuild (the role that Bechtel played in Kuwait after Gulf War I). The article states that Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root was awarded a “contract” without competition to put out oil fires in Iraq. As we all know by now, that should be task order, not contract. And calling it noncompetitive is interesting; this is the first time I’ve seen that confirmed in print. Oh, to get my hands on that DD350…