The Bush administration on Friday awarded up to $3.6 billion in temporary hurricane-victim housing contracts to small and minority-owned firms, saying it was shifting the money from four large companies that had not competed for the work. All but eight of the 36 contracts — worth up to $100 million each — were rebid to firms in the Gulf Coast region hit by last year’s hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said. FEMA acting director R. David Paulison said the contracting shift demonstrates “our commitment to a full and open competition procurement strategy for temporary housing work in the Gulf Coast.” ...
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