474 Million For A Travel Booking System
The Pentagon has contracted Northrup Grumman to develop a travel booking system, (like Orbitz). If congress doesn’t kill it, it will end up costing nearly $474 million dollars. thats MILLION DOLLARS. Even if it cost $1 Million I would say it was excessive.
“It will take 200 years to ever pay back the cost of this contract in terms of that savings,” Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., told ABC News, “especially when you consider they’re not getting the best price.” Four years ago, the Pentagon’s inspector general recommended killing the defense travel system altogether, but it survived. Investigators say 70 percent of Pentagon travelers refuse to use DTS because of faulty software or because they believe they can get a better price elsewhere.
I love the way Northrup Grumman tries to make it sound all good and rosy. My first question at reading this article is why the hell did they contract Northrup Grumman? If they really needed their own booking system, which I’m not convinced they do, why didn’t they contract a company that does this sort of thing. Like Expedia or Orbitz. My company uses American Express. Hell even IBM could have done it.
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