thibault who had asked me had i -- had i heard about this particular procurement yet? and the concerns that the commissioned. i told him i hadn't but that i would look into it. we, in fact, did have -- >> you heard about the contract action from us? >> yes. well, it was only -- it was early on in the process. it had not yet been decided exactly who was going to attract and what the army's plan was. the army was -- we did, in fact, have a peer review. i had my senior ses who does peer reviews is intimately involved in it. and there was a legitimate question as to whether or not this was the appropriate mechanism to use. >> uh-huh. >> osd, frankly, did not necessarily concur with the army's view. >> were you concerned about scope? >> yeah. we were concerned about whether the scope and whether it should be full and open competition. or did, in fact -- this scope of work exist under the current contract? there was an honest disagreement amongst several very respected people as to whether or not this was the appropriate way to go. at the end of the day, the army felt that t

thibault who had asked me had i -- had i heard about this particular procurement yet?sioned. i told him i hadn't but that i would look into it. we, in fact, did have -- >> you heard about the contract action from us? >> oh, sure, yeah. it was early on in the process. >> okay. >> it had not yet been decided exactly who was going to contract and what the army's plan was. i had my senior ses who does peer reviews intimately involved in it. and there was a legitimate question as to whether or not this was the appropriate mechanism to use. >> uh-huh. >> osd, frankly, did not necessarily concur with the army's view. >> were you concerned about scope? >> yeah, we were concerned about whether the scope and whether it should be full and open competition or did, in fact, this scope of work fit under the existing delivery contract. there was an honest disagreement amongst several very respected people as to whether or not this was the appropriate way to go. at the end of the day, the army felt that the position that they had taken was a reasoned one. they had a reasonable justifi

thibault coming of the floor. stack thank stack thank you, mr. shays. for fear of beating a dead horse and my horse is going to get pulverized bit oddly what i want to go back to mr. laboa and i think he said it well because i understood it. in this discussion about what you do, you said when asked what your responsibility, you said the statement delineates a number of people at paypal first major confederate. he said the second one is unique communication from the military to the aco to that some form of direction, it don't need the capability. and then we are not and this is wearing beating the poor horse to say that four times and then you clarified it and you give communications and use it to write knowledge because i didn't understand the qualifier. but for the record, can you please provide off for of those notifications, the nature of them and you gave them? if your e-mails, great. then it's just a note. if there was verbal, favorable by someone so to someone so because i realized notification can take a lot of reform. so i have that request. >>

. >> in terms of chairman thibault's question, you would remember if there were a mysterious appearance of years and years of kbr past performance reports at this briefing, wouldn't you? >> yes, sir i would. >> one more question? >> please, one more question. >> mr. phillips, general, excuse me, general phillips. this should be an easy one because when i was in iraq, you put four hours nonstop into educating me about the successful innovations there. one thing that hasn't been done is that logcap and most big army service contracts in the theater 10 to compete for one pays, sometimes too, but basically one. and then the rest are option years. and our experience of talking to contractor officers is that they just reflexively okay the option years, meaning there will be competition and less the contractor has screwed up courageously. we're not in our ninth rubberstamp option year for kbr. will you come in your post, increase the competition levels for the option years, woul whics supporters in the recommendation of considering option nonrenewal more serious than the current rubberstamping