Transportation Command

• OMB orders agencies to consolidate shipping services under new DoD contract

  A new OMB mandate gives agencies until Sept. 1 to come up with plans to transition their own package shipping contracts to a new contract vehicle negotiated and administered by the Defense Department.

  Management

  July 27, 2017
• IG finds vast improper payments in DoD contract to move military members’ cars

  When U.S. Transportation Command transitioned a nearly $1 billion contract to move servicemembers’ vehicles around the world to a new company a year and a half ago, seemingly everything that could have gone wrong actually went wrong.

  DoD Reporter's Notebook

  February 08, 2016
• Bill Welch, Partner, McMahon, Welch and Learned

  The U.S. Transportation Command fired its incumbent vehicle shipping contractor, America Auto Logistics. Instead, it gave the award to International Auto Logistics for $38 million less. USTRANSCOM said AAL's past performance isn't worth the higher price tag. But big problems with IAL's services have the agency thinking it may have gotten what it paid for. Bill Welch, partner at McMahon, Welch and Learned, is following this protest for the Washington Business Journal. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose what contractors can learn from this case.

  All News

  December 11, 2014