PinPoint, which also has offices in Arizona, had previously been a subcontractor for Strategic Allied Consulting, which is run by a Republican operative, Nathan Sproul.
Under the contract, the hourly rate was set at $330 for a site supervisor, and at $227.88 for a "journeyman lineman". The cost for subcontractors, which make up the bulk of Whitefish's workforce, is $462 per hour for a supervisor and $319.04 for a lineman.
Either they work for subcontractors — which, according to Amazon spokeswoman Lauren Lynch, "have their own pay and benefits structures" — or they are gig workers without benefits who sign up to drive at Amazon Flex.
It is distinguished from debt relations with subcontractors in which the material suppliers and the households had to pay some costs for their debts.
SIGIR reported a settlement agreement between the U.S. government and DynCorp International and one of its subcontractors under which DynCorp and its subcontractor must pay more than $8 million to resolve allegations that they submitted false claims for reimbursement under DynCorp's police-training contract.
Her company's growth, she said, has more recently been aided by guidance from the federal Small Business Administration and a larger company, Comprehensive Technologies International, which also provides translation services and for which she is a subcontractor.
Most of the construction risks relate to the performance of the construction subcontractor: the project company is able to make substantial claims against the former should any of these risks crystallise, for which it also takes security from the construction subcontractor.
Some of the electrical work, for example, was turned over to subcontractors, some of which hired unskilled Iraqis who were paid only a few dollars a day.
The system of layering subcontractor on top of subcontractor, which accounts for 70% or so of the work done so far, according to Congressional investigators, invariably drives up costs.
Rahn said it also includes 23 subcontractors, 20 of which are minority or small-business enterprises.
The worst abuses were reported in smaller subcontractor factories, which produce for larger factories with export licenses.
