Pierre Chao, director of the CSIS Defense Industrial Initiatives, was quoted in the Washington Post, "Mid-Tier Contractors

For many years, the middle tier of companies in the $200 billion federal services industry was regarded as a source of innovation and productivity. They grew into companies that today are big names in the contracting space -- SRA, Alion, CACI and Mantech. [. . .]

All told, the new contracting practices raise costs, said Pierre Chao, author of the CSIS report. "Companies have to spend money to bid and win positions on these [agency] vehicles, in addition to government-wide ones, and the agencies have to hire people to administer these contracting vehicles," he said.

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