Tens of tens of millions of taxpayer {dollars} went into growing, releasing and updating the federal government’s pandemic journey app, ArriveCan. The query now could be about how that cash was spent, who obtained it, and the way a lot work they did for it.
Irem Koca has been masking the ArriveCan controversy for The Hill Occasions. “This was an emergency procurement, it doesn’t imply that each one the principles are going to be out the window, and the [auditor general] mentioned that, and the Procurement Ombud mentioned that as properly,” says Koca.
The scandal has twists and turns and element upon element, nevertheless it actually boils all the way down to this: Was this a authorities in a rush, losing cash however with good intentions in an emergency? Or one thing worse than that?
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