The report alleged that a former official at the agency had awarded $7.7 million in no-bid contracts to organizations she ran.

Here's why we didn't think Halliburton should have a no-bid contract.

She had argued that if urgency required a no-bid contract, its duration should be brief.

The no-bid contract for the airport executives would be killed.

The schools chancellor's office said that almost half of the $1.36 billion in no-bid contracts this fiscal year had gone toward transportation.

The no-bid contract was worth between $28 million and $52 million.

Government officials and many of these companies have defended the no-bid contracts as a way of getting emergency work done quickly.

Some concerned awards of multimillion-dollar, no-bid contracts to former Army officials who had left the program.

The 5-million peso no-bid contract was awarded to the military.

"All of those no-bid contracts we are going to go back and rebid."