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The United States Agency for International Development, which has financed the ($170,000,000) project, turned it over to a joint venture of the Louis Berger Group, a New Jersey consulting and construction services firm, and Black & Veatch, a construction company in Kansas. In November, the Louis Berger Group paid one of the highest fines ever in a wartime contracting case to the federal government for overbilling.
Louis Berger hired an Indian subcontractor, which was a joint venture of two companies, BSC and C&C Construction, to handle the construction, and a South African private security contractor, ISS-Safenet, to provide security. Both sides in turn subcontracted to Afghans who did not even have a registered company, according to the Afghan Interior Ministry.
Each subcontract raised the costs as everyone took a share, and it was not long before the money allocated for the project had been drained.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/world/asia/01road.html?pagewanted=2&hp
Louis Berger hired an Indian subcontractor, which was a joint venture of two companies, BSC and C&C Construction, to handle the construction, and a South African private security contractor, ISS-Safenet, to provide security. Both sides in turn subcontracted to Afghans who did not even have a registered company, according to the Afghan Interior Ministry.
Each subcontract raised the costs as everyone took a share, and it was not long before the money allocated for the project had been drained.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/world/asia/01road.html?pagewanted=2&hp
