For some time I've been wondering about the accounting of the contract money. If you go to Recovery.gov and do a
search for Energy/Matter Conversion Corporation, there are two contracts, "N68936-09-C-0125" and "N6893609C0125", each worth exactly $7,855,504.14, for a combined total of $15,711,008 (with 28 cents gone missing). According to the latest quarterly report, EMC2 has spent $3,382,826. I assume the combined total is an error created when someone created a duplicate contract by leaving the dashes out of the contract number for the Q1 2010 report, and there is only one contract with a total value of $7,855,504.14.
According the Inspector General report, however, there is one contract worth $1.3 million. On page 33 the exact amount of the award is given as $1,272,826. That's well below the $7,855,504.14 value of the award given on the Recovery.gov website. I'm not sure what that means.
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