IAP Worldwide Services awarded over $508 million to provide electricity to Iraq

[maddezmom]

By September 22, 2003, the total value of task orders on the contract had reached $22 million—$14.3 million going to activities for the war in Iraq and $7.5 million to activities in Afghanistan—nearing the maximum $29 million contract allowance. On September 25, the Army Corps of Engineers announced that based on potential contingency requirements of the U.S. Central Command it was increasing the contract's maximum value by awarding a $494 million task order for the full five year life of the contract to rebuild Iraq's electrical system, including equipment, operations, maintenance, and training Iraqi Ministry of Electricity personnel. The increase brings the total value of International American Products contracts in Iraq to over $508 million. A USACE spokesman told the Center for Public Integrity that the $496 million increase was "a fully competed, best-value negotiated procurement." Reg Pelham, president of IAP, said that all contract information was "considered confidential" and declined to comment on any IAP contracts or media reports.

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Legal Action/Investigations
In 1996, IAP was the subject of a week-long news cycle regarding sexual harassment charges by Hungarian female kitchen workers under the supervision of IAP employees subcontracted by defense contractor Brown & Root of Houston. CEO McBride traveled to the U.S. military base, which provided backup support to NATO troops in Bosnia, and admitted he found "serious wrongdoing and violation of company policy." An IAP supervisor was reprimanded for conducting repeated pat down body searches of the women. One woman claimed a male American IAP employee asked her to live with him, possibly in return for money; another claimed Americans offered money for sex. Local cooks, construction workers, and drivers complained that after their three-month employment contracts with IAP expired, the company offered one-month contract renewals to employees and new hires at one-third of the original salary. The workers formed a union to file their claims.



http://www.public-i.org/wow/bio.aspx?act=pro&ddlC=26

Full electricity in Baghdad 6 years off (2013)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2752255

I guess they were doing such a good job on this, the US military decided to let them run Walter Reed. :sarcasm:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=328133&mesg_id=328133

[bentley]

1. IAP Worldwide Services

http://www.redcoatpublishing.com/spotlights/sl_08_06_iap.asp


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IAP’s heritage dates back to the days of Pan American Technical Services, Inc., a company that built America’s first space launch complex at Cape Canaveral, Fla., more than 50 years ago. The namesake International American Products (IAP) was formed in Irmo, SC, in 1990 by Doyle McBride, a retired US Army professional logistician. In response to a burgeoning US government contracting market, McBride’s IAP was growing as well. Providing a variety of logistics and contingency services, the company had grown by 2003 to $156 million from $18 million. McBride soon decided to take on a partner, selling 74% of the company in 2005 to a private investment group.

“The vision was not just to own a multi-million-dollar business, but to grow it into a multi-billion- dollar enterprise,” said Neffgen, who signed on as CEO in 2005. IAP Worldwide Services is well on its way to doing that. The company finished 2005 with more than $1.2
billion in sales and profits were up 34%.

[maddezmom]

2. 2005 to a private investment group?

hmmm wonder who that might be :eyes:


Welcome to DU :hi:

[maddezmom]

3. Cerberus Capital Management, Dan Quayle is on the Board of Both

Cerberus Capital Management
Cerberus Capital Management LP is large privately owned hedge fund. The firm is based in New York, N.Y., and run by 45-year-old financier Steve Feinberg. Former Vice President Dan Quayle has been a prominent Cerberus spokesperson and runs one of its international units.

Founded in 1992, Cerberus invests primarily in companies which are near bankruptcy and hopes to make the businesses it acquires profitable.

The company has been a voracious acquirer of businesses over the past several years and now includes sizeable investments in sportswear, paper products, military services, real estate, energy, retail, glassmaking, transportation, and building products, Its holdings amounted to $16 billion in 2005.

On October 19, 2006, John W. Snow, President George W. Bush's second United States Secretary of the Treasury, was named chairman of Cerberus.


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Government Services(Military, Energy, and Food&Drug)— owns IAP Worldwide Services, which bought Johnson Controls' World Services division in February 2005, and Netco Government Services.



Related Apparently, there's isn't enough war profiteer pie to go around for Bush administration officials. Cheney's KBR is going up against former Treasury Secretary John Snow's IAP:

WASHINGTON: A small defence contractor now controlled by a former Bush administration cabinet secretary is taking on Halliburton Co by bidding for one of three US Army contracts worth up to $50bn each to provide food and shelter to US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Within days of former US Treasury Secretary John Snow becoming chairman of the New York hedge fund that owns IAP Worldwide Services Inc, the company submitted its bid for huge US Army contracts that will be awarded by year-end. Cerberus Capital Management LP owns Cape Canaveral, Florida-based IAP, which is led by former executives from Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root. KBR is currently the US Army's sole contractor for providing food and shelter to the military in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But the Army now wants multiple contractors for these services and KBR is bidding again. Some defence analysts are predicting both KBR and IAP, which is run by former KBR executives, will each win one of the 10-year deals that start in 2007.

http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/11/targeting-war-profiteers-in-2007/

[bentley]

4. Thank you!

They should make a bumper sticker that says "Support our Contractors."

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

5. Meanwhile, from what I've seen, CNN is the only one in MSM reporting of IAP's

involvement with Walter Reed.

[maddezmom]

6. wonder why...it was in the news in Septmember they had been contracted

Measure to block Walter Reed outsourcing fails in Senate
By Jenny Mandel
[e-mail]

The Senate on Wednesday narrowly defeated a measure that would have blocked spending on a contract for operations support services at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, awarded following a long public-private competition process. But a key Senate supporter said she would continue to pursue the matter in conference.


In June, the House passed language similar to the defeated Senate measure, to keep the Army from moving forward with a plan to transfer work performed by about 350 federal employees to Cape Canaveral, Fla.-based IAP Worldwide Services.


The Senate amendment, presented by Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., during debate on the fiscal 2007 Defense appropriations bill, would have blocked spending on the contract already signed, though it would not have precluded the Army from carrying out a new public-private competition for the same work and would not have affected other ongoing or future competitive sourcing processes.

http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=34960&sid=6

[peacetalksforall]

7. Whether or not they are an honorable company, we must get right

wing corporate networks talking about their own.

The key to our future is making these companies work for us - we cannot let them be our rulers - they are the ones who stole our talents and contributions and turned it over to other countries, our jobs, their avoidance of taxes, their foreign licensing to exempt them from U.S. laws.

These companies put PNAC in power. They are friends to their friends - NOT US.

This is IAP's brief overview of what they do at Walter Reed:
"
: Facility management support
• Provides staff to supplement existing workforce
"

I smell collusion to keep money in THEIR pockets. How could anyone not have approved of the squalor. Why would anyone approve of the squalor?
It's impossible for someone not knowing and approving of the neglect which implies profits for someone.

How do their collusions work? What is the money run around and disbursement set-up?

They must defend themselves for this mess.

Privitization OF YOUR SOUL and YOUR CHILDRENS' SOULS. THAT'S THE FINAL PLAN.

[peacetalksforall]

8. Walter Reed - When and How Much

Defense Industry Daily

$25.8M over 5 Years for Base Ops Support at Walter Reed
Posted 14-Nov-2006 03:01
Related stories: Americas - USA, Contracts - Awards, Medical, Other Corporation, Support Functions - Other
Also on this day: 14-Nov-2006 »

IAP World Services in Cape Canaveral, FL received a $25.8 million cost-plus-award-fee contract for Base Operations Support at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Work will be performed in Washington, DC, and is expected to be complete by Nov. 3, 2011. Bids were solicited via the World Wide Web on June 4, 2003, and 1 bid was received by the U.S. Army Medical Command at Fort Sam Houston, TX (W81K04-07-C-0003).

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/2006/11/258m-over-5-years-for-base-ops-support-at-walter-reed/index.php

So what are the real reasons behind the firings within the Army?