From "Questions raised about ethics of Iraq contract" in the Seattle Times:

A Virginia company that got a $240 million federal contract to develop "a competitive private sector" in Iraq helped write the specifications for the work that knocked its competitors out of the running, a federal investigation has found.

A draft memo by the inspector general at the U.S. Agency for International Development blasts the agency for giving a competitive advantage to BearingPoint, a consulting company that's in court defending itself against allegations of other contracting irregularities and disclosures that its officials inaccurately stated its profits in 2003.

BearingPoint spent five months helping the USAID write the job specifications and got permission to spend money to train employees to work in Iraq long before the contract went out for public bid.

The firm's competitors had only a week to come up with their own bids for the complicated program after final revisions were made, the inspector general found.

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BearingPoint, formerly KPMG Consulting, and its employees have given more than $117,000 to the 2000 and 2004 Bush election campaigns, more than any other major Iraqi contractor, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a watchdog group that tracks campaign contributions.