KBR held a monopoly-grade LOGCAP contract for eight years without facing a competitor.

Evidence

In 2001, KBR won a one-year LOGCAP contract to provide an undefined quantity and an undefined value of “selected services in wartime.” Thanks to a series of one-year contract extensions, the company then enjoyed nearly eight years of work without facing a competitor’s bid. Overall, between 2001 and 2010, the number of Pentagon contracts issued without competitive bidding nearly tripled. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 695

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why were one-year extensions instead of a rebid allowed to persist for eight years? What official rationale justified no competitive bidding?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 695
• XREF: connects to: Splitting LOGCAP contracts among firms produced mini-monopolies, not competition.

Broader Connections

• Splitting LOGCAP contracts among firms produced mini-monopolies, not competition. #corroborates (0.70)