top o' the mornin'®

[earendel]

I had to wait to post this to see the outcome of events here in the office this morning.

As some of you may remember, our office was involved in awarding some of the big construction projects for Iraq reconstruction, including water and power production. You may have heard that Congress is investigating these awards because of charges that the contractors have done either shoddy work or none at all. Our involvement was only in the actual award - after that the responsibility for oversight went to the Iraqi Reconstruction Office under the Coalition Provisional Authority. But I figured the investigators would be coming around to us soon since we were responsible for choosing the prime contractors. And sure enough, a team of investigators showed up this morning to meet with the contract specialist who did the source selection and the contracting officer who signed them. My role was quite limited - database stuff, mostly, but I did have e-mails and documents that were given to me to convert to Adobe format and the like. Being the compulsive and retentive sort, I have all the e-mails I either sent or received during the process, and also soft copies of all the things I was asked to work with (solicitation documents, mostly). I wasn't asked for anything, but did have to help the contracting officer retrieve things from his e-mail and hard drive.

So now the investigators have left, presumably for the day, since the contracting officer left for the day just a few minutes ago.

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

Aren't you glad that you had a limited role in the process

[earendel]

Aren't you glad that you had a limited role in the process

Yes. But I did keep records of every stage of my involvement, even though no one asked for them. I did have to help my boss retrieve some records, though. And they didn't clap him in irons and lead him away so perhaps things aren't so bad.