Coalition Letter to Retain NDAA Sections 821 of S. 4784 and 805 of H.R. 8800

In a letter today to the chairs and top Democrats on HASC and SASC, four groups — Taxpayers for Common Sense, the National Taxpayers Union, the R Street Institute and the Taxpayers Protection Alliance — argued enacting those reporting requirements will help ensure fair pricing in noncompetitive contracts and discourage overcharging the Pentagon.

“Some price increases are truly unpredictable. However, collectively, they happen so often that it is hardly fair to treat their ongoing occurrence as a surprise,” the groups wrote. “When price increases go underreported, the Pentagon loses out on opportunities to work with contractors to address the root causes of those increases in a timely manner.”