+ - Federal Contractors are $600 Toilet Seats-> 3
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ideonexus writes "Last month an article appeared on Slashdot about how the Government pays IT contractors twice what it pays its own workers. Missing from the article was how much the IT Contractor pays its own workers. After working for a Federal Contractor for 10 years, a document accidentally leaked to employees by the contractor illustrated the incredible disparity between what the Contractor was paying us and what they were charging the government. Like most contracts according to the GAO, the Government provided our offices, utilities, computers, and training, leaving our salaries as the only overhead to the IT Contractor, giving them an incredible incentive to keep them as low as possible to maximize profits. When the top 100 Defense Contractors cost taxpayers $306 billion, eliminating the Federal Contractor middle-man seems like an obvious place to start the austerity measures."
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Multiple levels of contractors make it worse (Score:1)
Missing info (Score:1)
Some critical data is missing from this "report".
Salaries stated for Government workers do NOT include their retirement, medical, etc. costs. What a contractor charges does include those costs for their people. Including those costs will make the comparison more equitable, if not tip it the other way.
Doing business with the Federal Government is expensive for a company just because of the amount of paperwork and tracking that is required. Those costs are not part of the internal Federal IT costs.
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I'm not a slashdot editor, but... (Score:2)
I'm not inside the heads of the Slashdot editors who make the final call on submissions, but while your article does contain multiple links, background, and a tie-in to a running subject -- all great things that more submissions should have -- you might want to either reword it from "us/our" to "them/their" etc to make it more in-line with journalistic conventions, even though you obviously worked at such a place and have first hand knowledge. Editors might be reluctant to post a main news article that see