FEMA to Hold Re-Bid on Katrina Contracts

Thursday October 6, 2005 4:01 PM

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By LARA JAKES JORDAN

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Hundreds of millions of dollars in federal contracts for Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts that were handed out with little or no competition will be re-bid to prevent any waste or abuse, FEMA chief R. David Paulison said Thursday.

``I've been a public servant for a long time, and I've never been a fan of no-bid contracts,'' Paulison told a Senate panel investigating the Federal Emergency Management Agency's response to the hurricane. ``Sometimes you have to do them because of the expediency of getting things done. And I can assure that you we are going to look at all of those contracts very carefully.''