Saturday, February 27, 2010

Blackwater likely to receive contract in Afghanistan

Former officials familiar with the deal say that Blackwater is likely to get a Defense Department-issued contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars to train and mentor Afghan police.

The police training contract is supposed to be decided next month, and the company has not been officially notified that it's getting it. But the only competing bid for the contract, submitted by Northrop with MPRI, has been disqualified, a former official knowledgeable about the contract said.

"We have no knowledge that the contract will be awarded to us," Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Blackwater, now known as Xe, told POLITICO Thursday.

Lockheed, meanwhile, is quite likely to be awarded an associated logistics contract to support the Afghanistan police training effort (a contract known as TORP 166), for which Blackwater also bid, the former officials said.


rest at http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33544.html

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