Who Rigged the Bids?: Second Edition

By Vincent Green

What you are about to read is a follow-up to the first edition of this publication, entitled “Who Rigged the Bids, Combatting Procurement Fraud in the City of Brotherly love.” The first edition was undertaken after a series of training seminars for the City of Philadelphia’s Housing Authority’s Office of Audit and Complia

• Language: English
• Publisher: URLink Print & Media, LLC
• Release date: Nov 19, 2019
• ISBN: 9781643678115

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Who Rigged the Bids?

Second Edition

Copyright © 2019 by Vincent E. Green. All rights reserved.

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28.08.19

Also, by Vincent E. Green:

A View from my Bay

Respond, Don’t React-

Close Encounters of a Law Enforcement Kind

Corruption in the Twenty-First Century

Combating Unethical Practices in Government, Commerce, and Society

Memories of Ground Zero

Untrammeled Love

I Saw a Mouse Today

CONTENTS

One To Grow On

Foreword

Preface

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: Government Of The People, By The People, For The People, Shall Not Perish From The Earth

Chapter Three: A Serious Battle Fought By Serious People

Chapter Four: Public Corruption: A Plague On Our Houses

Chapter Five: The Anatomy Of Bid-Rigging

Chapter Six: Specifications Must Be About Agency Need, Not Contractor Greed

Chapter Seven: Choose A Category—Any Category!

Chapter Eight: Bid-Rigging In Government Organizations

Chapter Nine: Politics Can Make Strange Bedfellows

Chapter Ten: Am I My Brother’s Keeper?

Chapter Eleven: The Bid-Rigging Checklist

Chapter Twelve: The Bid-Rigging Matrix

Chapter Thirteen: The Game Is Afoot

Chapter Fourteen: Fighting Corruption Is Not A Spectator Sport

Chapter Fifteen: Carpe Diem!

Chapter Sixteen: Let’s Go Out And Fight For It!

Bibliography

ONE TO GROW ON

"If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them.

If slaves are freed, mentally and physically, man must free them.

If new truths are discovered, man must discover them.

If the naked are clothed;

If the hungry are fed;

If justice is done;

If labor is rewarded,

If superstition is driven from the mind;

If the defenseless are protected and if right finally triumphs,

All must be the work of man.

The grand victories of the future must be won by man, and by man alone."

Robert G. Ingersoll,

On the Gods and Other Essays

FOREWORD

In his second inaugural address in 1937, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States shared the following quote; The test of progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.¹

The president understood that it’s somewhat of an easy undertaking for the rich to increase their wealth. However, in contrast, he also understood, without fear of serious rebuttal, that it is much harder for the poor among us to stop being poor.

The president also understood that sought after goals such as freedom and equality go hand in hand. These are goals that corruption and its spawns of despair work each day to bring about the demise.

Obtaining these goals is an undertaking of which each of us who understand the beauty of hope must aggressively take hold of each and every day that we are allowed to boldly claim that life is not to be controlled by the corrupt minds and workings of those who are not partners in obtaining these goals.

In my battle-tested view, the president’s words are a powerful quote from which to transition when we decide to attack the question of how we will go about combating corruption, the great destabilizer in society and the devastatingly negative impact that corruption has on those with too little, while opening the doors of wealth for those who corruptly live an abundant life.

Since the beginning of time, corruption has manifested itself into human existence in many forms. In all of its hideous shapes, corruption has been consistent in its relentless drive to stifle the growth of those with too little.

If we take the time to examine one nation after another, one State after another, one city after another, it will be found that there exists the consistent presence of an enemy devouring those things that are intended for those with too little, intended to lift the subjugated, to level the rocky playing field of life. The enemy is corruption infiltrating life in one or more of its many forms.

While those of us endowed with a deep sense of integrity work tirelessly to support the existence of positive systems of government, corruption plows through the fields of growth and prosperity unabashedly, defecating on the fruitful crops planted with the intent of reaping a bountiful harvest for the people.

In place of hope, corruption plants seeds of disharmony with the intent of cultivating a spirit of disorder and working to strangle hope at every opportunity.

Through my career, I have gained the untrammeled vision that has revealed that the time is now, to focus on effective and efficient management of government operations. It begins with taking control of the corruption that has seeped into so many organizations; in fact, has seeped into so many minds.

Each of us has a right to the tools that will aid in producing a prosperous life. Our leaders and those who represent them have a responsibility to exercise the authority bestowed upon them to help master those tools and manifest that prosperity into reality.

Anything less must be met with reckoning