to find and engineer sites for temporary housing for displaced residents. Those are $100 million contracts awarded to the Shaw Group, Bechtel Corp., CH2M Hill Inc. We're in the process of re-bidding them already."Ī FEMA spokeswoman later said the new bidding process affects only the four largest no-bid deals. Lieberman (D-Conn.) why the agency did not hold competitions before Katrina struck, Paulison replied that "all of those no-bid contracts, we are going to go back and rebid. David Paulison, the acting director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said, "I've been in public service a long time, and I've never been a fan of no-bid contracts."Īsked by Sen. Under questioning about the agency's reliance on contracts that lacked full and open bidding, R.
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