USAID not collecting ineligible contractor costs

By Sarah Bedford

Published October 22, 2014 4:02pm ET

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USAID not collecting ineligible contractor costs — Afghan construction workers install steel reinforcement bars on a building to be used by the Afghan National Army in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013. The site is just one of many construction projects in the capital, where skilled workers earn about $20 per day and laborers earn around $10 daily. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) | Rahmat Gul

U.S. Agency for International Development officials are not collecting funds contractors could owe the government for work they performed in Afghanistan, a letter from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction said.

Millions of questioned costs have gone uncollected as USAID contracting officers continue to give companies “what seems to be an inordinate amount of time and preference in justifying costs,” according to the SIGAR inquiry.

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