In late October you announced that DOE would build nine new supercomputers with five companies at the cost of $1 billion in taxpayers money. There were no open competitions for these awards, no notice to Congress as required by the Anti Deficiency act and no indication of where this funding would come from. My understanding is that the deal was inked and announced before the public servants at the Office of Science even knew about it. (08:28–08:41)
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Asserts that the DOE did not follow required procedures for competition and notification to Congress for the supercomputer project.
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