Agencies sometimes paid significantly more than necessary for the same type of debris removal and demolition work because they didn’t share contracting information, an audit has found. The Homeland Security Department’s Office of the Inspector General said the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not check how much the Army Corps of Engineers or local governments were paying for the same post-Hurricane Katrina work throughout the New Orleans region, according to an Aug. 16 audit. As a result, contract costs varied widely from contract to contract, the IG said.
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