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posted by martyb on Monday December 17 2018, @07:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the Meet-your-goals-by-moving-the-goalposts dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @12:47AM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @12:47AM (#775666)

    My position is that NO ONE ("republican" or not) has ever claimed: "it would be completely impossible for a private entity have an equally screwed process."

    Go ahead, you can disprove it with one counter example.

  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday December 18 2018, @01:11AM (5 children)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday December 18 2018, @01:11AM (#775674)

    And my position is the Republicans have always argued that governments always do things so badly that they should get out of the way of private enterprise, who always do things better.

    Even though it is untrue.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @01:15AM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @01:15AM (#775676)

      So your position has nothing to do with the original claim, which was a strawman. Yes, good we are in agreement.

      • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday December 18 2018, @01:30AM (2 children)

        by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday December 18 2018, @01:30AM (#775681)

        Nope.

        My position is that the original claim is hyperbole.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @01:53AM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @01:53AM (#775689)

          Your position just changed three times in the last hour or so?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 23 2018, @07:02PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 23 2018, @07:02PM (#777877)

      When they are too inept to run their own business, but don't feel anyone else deserves the benefits of the government jobs and if they really wanted them they should start their own business or come and work for the government too, but only if they are below them on the pecking order. Nothing like a filthy liberal in a position of power.