The Army tied too many contracts together to form a $20 billion contract without justifying it, restricting small businesses from competing for the contract, a new audit found. The Defense Department’s Office of the Inspector General determined that the Army Contracting Agency coded its Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-2 Services (ITES-2S) contract too liberally. The Army should have selected an industry classification system code that better describes the principal nature of the services it wants to buy, the IG said. The miscoding led to a bundled contract unsuitable for small businesses, according to the Aug. 9 audit.
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