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Is the Coast Guard Saving the Drowning FEMA, by Taking Over its Duties?
By James Smith
9 Nov 2012
In light of recent news articles, such as “Ineptitude in FEMA food purchasing continues” and “FEMA: A Disaster Relief Agency That’s Completely Unprepared for Disasters“, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is performing an end-run on government contract procedures by shifting the responsibility from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to the United States Coast Guard (USCG).
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Clearly shows that the purposes for the J&A is for the relief, recovery and restoration due to the storm.
A review of the USCG Newsroom at www.uscg.mil failed to and reports of any relief efforts by Coast Guard personnel actually being “boots on the ground” in the affected areas.
The USCG has in the past few days have performed a Justification and Approval (J&A) on many basic items, such as fuel, generators, food, and shelter to be used in support of Hurricane Sandy.
Leading header in PDF document on every single J&A in recent days
The justification has been redacted to hide sensitive information, and has been copied and pasted to each of the J&A requests, without any variation.
The J&A’s provide contract award authority from 30 October 2012 until 30 November 2012, and shall not exceed 150 days unless extraordinary circumstances require another J&A to be issued by the Head of the Contracting Activity. The maximum amount of tax payer money that is allowed shall not exceed 10 million dollars.
Here is a list of what is being requested:
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