D.C. Council members were shocked to learn last week Mayor Adrian M. Fenty’s administration routed millions of dollars to the D.C. Housing Authority so it could contract with favored companies to renovate select playgrounds and recreation facilities. It’s hard to understand the legislators’ surprise.
Circumventing procurement rules has been standard fare for decades; ask the federal Government Accountability Office. And issuing project management contracts, as the housing agency did with Banneker Ventures LLC and Regan Associates, also isn’t new.
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