Sometimes we become very insular and begin to believe that contracting problems are limited to the United States. Probably because of the shear size of our procurement budget, no other country loses as much to fraud, waste, and abuse. But as a percentage of procurement budgets, its likely that other countries lose more that the US. There are probably cultural reasons for this but we don’t believe that many countries have the level of oversight that the US enjoys (or not enjoys, depending upon your perspective).
Source: PNWC’s Government Contracting Update: Contracting Issues Not Limited to Only the US
New Regulation Formalizes Ombudsman Practice and Identity for IDIQ Contracts
An ‘ombudsman’ is an official charged with addressing and/or investigating the interests of individuals’ or companies’
