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Defense Contracting: Progress Made in Implementing Defense Base Act Requirements, but Complete Information on Costs is Lacking

15 May 2008

11 pages

Authors: John Needham; Jeffrey Hartnet; Greg Campbell; Sarah Jones; Tara Copp; John Krump; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC

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DOD and Labor have made progress in addressing challenges we identified in our April 2005 report, but several still remain. While DOD has taken steps to reduce DBA insurance rates through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) single-insurer pilot program, it has not yet implemented similar efforts department wide. Through its pilot program, the Army Corps has lowered its DBA insurance rates from what DOD had previously paid. ...