The U.S. Army Contracting Policy
The United States Government uses contractors to take care of most of its high dollar requirements and purchases. The governments' thoughts are that this process is actually saving money for them. At times this is true, but many times it is not. Many times the process of finding and investigating contractors turns out to be more expensive than if the government still had their own employees doing this work.
One of the requirements when choosing contractors is that there has to be more than one bidder. …
