OGC quashes card abuse concerns_2
17 August 2012
The Office of Government Commerce has moved to quash suggestions that the government procurement card (GPC) could be used to fund illicit purchases following a report highlighting widespread abuse of the US military’s purchasing card.
The US congressional investigation organisation, the General Accounting Office, recently found that Pentagon employees had purchased the equivalent of £6.3 million of non-work related goods and services.
One soldier spent $3,100 in a nightclub. Another left the service owing $20,000 on his card, while another serviceman’s wife used a card to fund a $13,000...