DHS Eagle enables no-bid situations such as this one.
The real, real problem is the way contractors know how to stretch things out, once they’ve landed the contract, to come in five times over budget.
I hope this crap gets tossed in a hurry, however, so I don’t really care that it’s so bad as to not really be functional.
Sort of.
Companies had to bid to get onto EAGLE. From there they could be selected without further competition, but the gvt was still supposed to do some sort of due dilligence (market research, etc)