Secret Man Caves Found in EPA Warehouse

[Ptarmigan]

Secret Man Caves Found in EPA Warehouse
http://www.govexec.com/contracting/2013/06/secret-man-caves-found-epa-warehouse/64202/

A warehouse maintained by contractors for the Environmental Protection Agency contained secret rooms full of exercise equipment, televisions and couches, according to an internal audit.

 EPA’s inspector general found contractors used partitions, screens and piled up boxes to hide the rooms from security cameras in the 70,000 square-foot building located in Landover, Md. The warehouse -- used for inventory storage -- is owned by the General Services Administration and leased to the EPA for about $750,000 per year.

 The EPA has issued a stop work order to Apex Logistics LLC, the responsible contractor, ensuring the company’s workers no longer have access to the site -- EPA security officials escorted contractor personnel off the premises on May 17 -- and ending all payments on the contract.

Lots of waste. I suspect this is happening more with other agency warehouse.

[DumbAss Tanker]

If the contractor didn't fool anyone about the equipment purchases, i.e it was either owned by the agency and supposed to be stored there or was owned by the contractor, there probably wasn't any actual contract default to justify termination.  In a termination for the convenience of the government (No default proven), the contractor still gets lost profits.  If the contractor actually BS'd the EPA about using the dough that bought the equipment for some legit operating expense, that's another story.

[jctejas]

Yes but was it a carbon friendly green warehouse?