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November 14, 2011

No Bid FailureThe Obama Administration Awards A $433 Million No-

Bid Contract To A Campaign Contributor WhoseCompany Is Making Triple Digit Profits Off Of Taxpayer

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PROMISE: In 2008, Obama Promised To End No-Bid Contracts Once And ForAll. OBAMA: "And I will finally end the abuse of no-bid contracts once and for all - thedays of sweetheart deals for Halliburton will be over when I'm in the White House. (BarackObama, Remarks in La Crosse, Wisconsin, 10/1/08)

Watch Obama Promise To End No-Bid Contracts

FAILURE: PolitifactRates Obamas Promise To End No-Bid Contracts Broken.(Wes Allison, End No-Bid Contracts Above $25,000,Politifact, 1/6/10)

Politifact: It was the political equivalent of Barack Obama's eyes being too bigfor his stomach. (Wes Allison, End No-Bid Contracts Above $25,000, Politifact,1/6/10)

Obama Has Put No Limits On No-Bid Contracts. Indeed, since Obama tookoffice, none of the instructions from the White House's Office of Management and

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Budget -- which serves as the administration's controller -- has put any limits onthe value of no-bid contracts. (Wes Allison, End No-Bid Contracts Above $25,000,Politifact, 1/6/10)

Over The Last Year, The Obama Administration Has Aggressively Pushed A$433-Million Plan To Buy An Experimental Smallpox Drug, Despite UncertaintyOver Whether It Is Needed Or Will Work. (Dave Willman, Cost, Need Questioned In $433-Million

Smallpox Drug Deal, Los Angeles Times,11/13/11)

Siga Was The Only Company Asked To Submit A Proposal. Siga was awardedthe final contract in May through a sole-source procurement in which it was the onlycompany asked to submit a proposal. (Dave Willman, Cost, Need Questioned In $433-Million Smallpox DrugDeal,Los Angeles Times, 11/13/11)

Obama Officials Have Taken Unusual Steps To Give The Contract To ALongtime Democratic Party Donor. Senior officials have taken unusual steps tosecure the contract for New York-based Siga Technologies Inc., whose controllingshareholder is billionaire Ronald O. Perelman, one of the world's richest men and alongtime Democratic Party donor. (Dave Willman, Cost, Need Questioned In $433-Million Smallpox Drug Deal,Los Angeles Times,11/13/11)

Andrew Stern, The Former President Of The SEIU - A Wellspring OfCampaign Money - Is On Sigas Board. In June 2010, Siga further heightenedits presence in Washington by naming to its board Andrew Stern, former head ofthe Service Employees International Union and a frequent visitor to the ObamaWhite House. The union is a wellspring of campaign money and volunteers forDemocratic candidates. (Dave Willman, Cost, Need Questioned In $433-Million Smallpox Drug Deal, LosAngeles Times,11/13/11)

When Siga Was In Danger Of Losing Its Grip On The Contract A Year Ago, TheOfficials Blocked Other Firms From Competing. (Dave Willman, Cost, Need Questioned In $433-Million Smallpox Drug Deal,Los Angeles Times, 11/13/11)

The Price Per Dose Charged By Siga Is Well Above A Price That WasConsidered To Be Reasonable By Government Specialists. The contract callsfor Siga to deliver 1.7 million doses of the drug for the nation's biodefense stockpile. Theprice of approximately $255 per dose is well above what the government's specialistshad earlier said was reasonable, according to internal documents and interviews.(DaveWillman, Cost, Need Questioned In $433-Million Smallpox Drug Deal, Los Angeles Times,11/13/11)

In An Internal Memo In March, Dr. Richard J. Hatchett, Chief MedicalOfficer For HHS' Biodefense Preparedness Unit, Said Siga's ProjectedProfit At That Point Was 180%, Which He Called Outrageous. (Dave Willman,Cost, Need Questioned In $433-Million Smallpox Drug Deal,Los Angeles Times, 11/13/11)

SIGAS DRUG HAS NOT BEEN APPROVED BY THE FDA

The Government's Pursuit Of Siga's Product Raises The Question: Should TheU.S. Buy An Unproven Drug For Such A Nebulous Threat? (Dave Willman, Cost, NeedQuestioned In $433-Million Smallpox Drug Deal, Los Angeles Times,11/13/11)

Sigas Drug Cant Be Tested On Humans Because Of Ethical Restraints, SoIts Not Sure To Work. Siga's drug, an antiviral pill called ST-246, would be used to



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treat people who were diagnosed with smallpox too late for the vaccine to help. Yet thenew drug cannot be tested for effectiveness in people because of ethical constraints and no one knows whether animal testing could prove it would work in humans. (DaveWillman, Cost, Need Questioned In $433-Million Smallpox Drug Deal, Los Angeles Times,11/13/11)

The FDA Says There Is No Clear Regulatory Path For Approving Drugs Like

Sigas ST-246. In May of this year, Robert G. Kosko Jr., a manager in the FDA'santiviral-products division, wrote that there was no clear regulatory path for approvingantiviral drugs for smallpox again because of the uncertainty surrounding proof ofeffectiveness. (Dave Willman, Cost, Need Questioned In $433-Million Smallpox Drug Deal, Los Angeles Times, 11/13/11)

Gary Disbrow, A Virologist At HHS On The FDA: My interpretation of theircurrent position is that there is NO foreseeable path to licensure. (Dave Willman, Cost,Need Questioned In $433-Million Smallpox Drug Deal,Los Angeles Times, 11/13/11)



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