procurement

A few months later procurement orders were issued for major items such as a new "panel line" to process steel plates but it has now emerged that these notices were withdrawn in March.

The White House has defended the accuracy of DOGE’s claims, with a spokesperson recently saying, “All numbers are rigorously scrubbed with agency procurement officials.”

"Over time, procurement price of ethanol has increased and now the weighted average price of ethanol is higher than cost of refined petrol," the petroleum ministry said earlier this month.

“The contract between Los Angeles County and Smartmatic USA was competitively bid, evaluated and awarded in compliance with the county’s open competitive public procurement processes.”

A more significant deterrent will be delayed payments and difficult contract enforcement, which are "major legacy issues when it comes to public procurement in India", says Srijan Shukla of the Observer Research Foundation think-tank.