US Gov. Launches Web Site To Track IT Spending

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday July 1, 2009 @12:03AM from the how-much-for-the-retractable-drink-holders dept.

andy1307 writes "Vivek Kundra, the federal chief information officer, announced on Tuesday a new Web site designed to track more than $70 billion in government IT spending, showing all contracts held by major firms within every agency. The (Flash-heavy) site, USAspending.gov, shows detailed information about whether IT contracts are being monitored and budgets being met. The data also show which contracts were won through a competitive process or in a no-bid method (the latter approach is criticized by good-government advocates for excluding firms from business opportunities). Each prime contractor is listed as well as the status of that project; sub-contractors are not yet shown."

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Re:Okay what about military, etc? by MindKata · 2009-07-01 02:09 · Score: 2, Funny

"how on earth could they ever buy things just because they can"

What like spending money on an IT project to setup a web site to monitor money spent on IT projects?

Maybe they could create another IT project to monitor spending on IT projects that monitor IT projects?

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