Auditors have uncovered common breaches of federal contracting rules by the National Research Council. Favoured contractors received work without having to bid for it, including six-figure deals divvied up in small, piecemeal invoices in an improper practice called contract splitting: “One of the central principles of federal contracting is openness.”
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