- DOGE focused on government contracts with consulting firms.
- Federal agencies have until March 7 to submit exams of their existing contracts with 10 large companies.
- The government is the main customer of several of the companies under the spotlight.
In the midst of DOGE cost reduction efforts, federal agencies were invited to review and justify their expenses for consultants.
The General Services Administration (GSA), which manages purchases and real estate on behalf of a large part of the federal government, asked the officials of the supply to examine their contracts with 10 major consultants.
They have until Friday to provide GSA with a list of contracts they consider essential and those that can be cut.
“Within the framework of the efforts of the Trump-Vance administration to eliminate fraud and waste, the GSA initially asked the agency’s partners to write a brief explanation on the reasons why the consulting contracts were essential to fill their statutory ends,” GSA spokesperson for Business Insider.
“We have determined the need for more in-depth answers and are collecting additional information at the moment,” said the spokesperson.
The 10 large consulting companies being examined are:
- Dowelly
- Accenture Federal Services
- Booz Allen Hamilton
- General dynamic
- Leidos
- Guidance house
- Hii Mission Technologies Corp
- Science Applications International Corporation
- Federal CGI
- International Business Machines Corporation
These 10 companies collectively earn tens of billions of dollars a year from their contracts with the federal government. They are hired to assess, advise and implement solutions to help the government save money over time and become more effective.
During his last financial year, Deloitte US won 9% of his total government contracts
Others rely even more on federal contracts. Booz Allen Hamilton separated from its private sector council branch in 2008 and now generates almost all of its $ 11 billion in annual public sector income.
Leidos Holdings, which provides national security and technology services such as scanners at the control airport, said in January that it had made around 87% of its total revenues from US government contracts last year.
Government contracts constituting a large part of business income, certain Accenture and Deloitte consultants told BI that they feared that opinions lead to layoffs.
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