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From NPR:
The audit found that as of Oct. 1 CBP had paid Accenture Federal Services approximately $13.6 million of a $297 million contract to recruit and hire 7,500 applicants, including Customs and Border Protection officers, Border Patrol agents, and Air and Marine Interdiction agents. But 10 months into the first year of a five-year contract Accenture had only processed "two accepted job offers," according to the report.
[...] When it became clear the company would miss a 90-day deadline to reach the "full operation phase" outlined in the agreement, the agency modified the contract granting Accenture another three months to ramp up operations to meet the terms of the contract.
CBP also allowed the company to use the government agency's applicant tracking system when Accenture failed to deploy its own, leading to another contract revision.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @02:24PM (1 child)
You cant. The right thing is to have the government responsible for only those things related to its legitimate use of aggression (police, borders, military etc) and keep it out of everything else. Second best to leaving it out is to have any other tasks run by smaller local governments so there is competition and people can move.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @06:53PM
yeah, iow like it was designed and expressed in the constitution. the federal gov is not supposed to be doing 95-98% of the things it does now but once they started educating/raising the children somehow nobody knows this anymore.