Senator wants answers about GSA, Sun deal

Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) wants to know how much money, if any, the government has saved or lost under its contract with Sun Microsystems, and he has asked General Services Administration Inspector General Brian Miller to check it out now.

A hotline complaint alleged that Sun overcharged the government in 2004 for products and services on GSA’ multiple-award schedules, Miller told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee March 28. As a result, the company’s contract with GSA was extended but not renewed while the IG looked into the matter. Investigations have ensued to determine if GSA Administrator Lurita Doan intervened in negotiations to keep the company on GSA’s schedules.

“If the government is getting a fair deal, then I want to know it,” Grassley wrote in a June 5 letter to Miller. “If not, then Congress needs to understand the full scope of the problem.”

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