European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday april 2, 19bb the stars and stripes Navy in suggests firm s debarment by Norman a military writer Wam i Noton lat j the Navy ha1 continued to a Ard contracts for specially Fah Cau a weapons containers to a Small Idaho company despite Clear find Ings of shoddy workmanship arid delivery delays the service s inspector general Lias concluded. The performance of the Yanke con Tainer corp. Has been so poor that die Navy should immediately initiate de Harment proceedings to Block the Boise Idaho company from receiving additional contracts added rear adm. Ming e. Chang in an audit report. Moreover the Navy needs to deter mine Why its buying agents continued 10 use Vanke Container and Why the scr ice foiled to Lake advantage of numer Ous opportunities to default inc contractor or demand consideration penalty payments " inc of upon Stales. Vanke Container corp. Contracts indicate a Clear inability to perform to con tract with regard to delivery and product Quality inc Navy auditors found. This inability has been repeatedly demonstrated in contracts since i 982," Yanke handled nine of the i con tracts it received since 1982 by delivering "312 defective new containers resulting in Over is 18,000 in additional Posi to inc Navy the auditors wrote. Seven contracts were extended and five were delivered delinquent to the 11-Page audit report which has yet to be released publicly summarizes the results of an investigation requested last december by assistant Navy Secre tary Everett Pyatt. Tie report was re leased by he project on military procurement a Washington based group that helps whirl la Blower. Vanke owner Richard fish denied the accusations. Generally most of that is jul in. We intend to have our Day in court on fish said in Boise that he had not seen the report. He accused the Navy of investigating his company behind our Back. We have not been Many of the things mentioned Here Are untrue fish said declining to elaborate. We Are still looking at the facts said it. Janet Mescus a Navy spokeswoman. Debarment is an option but no Deci Sions have been made. We normally try to work with Small businesses to Over come problems As much As we fish said he asked sen. Sieve Symms a Idaho to intercede tic Idaho Republican wrote to the Navy saying that Yanke had heard a wet weather cleanup Crew t pc. Stan l. Merrill left and spec. 4 Scon m. Kathrun team no la collect trash along the Banks of the Ruder re tar outside the town of Klein Ruder West Germany the sul Ditren Frum s troop 4th so Ullh air Cav Ktut fete joined by Nanut 20 nth Era front the Fulda military Community who also thinned life jackets and foul Heather gear to police the River. The project be part of the annual Spring cleanup con dulled by if oops in different locutions Mound the urea competitor was challenging its continued eligibility for Navy contracts and wanted to know if that were inic. In our correspondence we were asking the Navy to advise us and 10 advise Yanke just what their concerns were said Phil pc Burger Symms chief of staff. The purpose of the inquiry from the senator was to ask what was the Story Here and when does Vanke gel to re Spond to these allegation Yanke has not had an Opportunity to address any of these concerns and we certainly Haven t had an Opportunity to evaluate the mat Ter according to the audit report. The Navy has awarded Yanke 19 contracts since 198 Worth 112.25 million to fabricate aluminium fiberglas or steel boxes used to ship zip Krive armament like the Sparrow harm Harpoon and Stan Dard missiles and inc mk-46 torpedo. . Exercise in Honduras to Cost $5 million Washington api the deploy ment of More slim 3,100 troops to Hon Duras As a show of Force and warning to Nicaragua will Cost at least 5 million the Pentagon said thursday. Dan Howard the defense depart ment s chief spokesman snid final Fig ures won t be available for 30 to 60 Days. Hot he said. The total Cost of i he opera Tion is estimated at somewhere Between s3 million and j10 Howard was asked about the Cost of the so called emergency deployment readiness exercise after announcing the last soldiers from the ii2nd airborne Liv had returned Home to fort Ecru go n.c., thursday morning. Some logistical support people will be returning tomorrow Friday he added. All the equipment and supplies not expended in the operation will be returned to the United Silies soldiers from the b2nd airborne and inc Ullh Light inf div Ai fort Ord calif., were airlifted on March 17 and in after nicaraguan troops crossed into Honduras to mount an attack on . Backed Contra guerrillas. The american soldiers were Ihen flown to different pans of Honduras for exerciser with a honduran army units. We re very pleased wish the accomplishments of ibis exercise Howard said la demonstrates inc responsive Ness and deploy ability of the army s Light forces in a joint audit of w. German claims saves $10 million from stuff and hire reports an army investigation of claims made by West germans for damages by . Troops on Man Euver showed thai in 1 of 94 claims cipher there Hod been no damage or it had not been done by u a. Forces. In another 29 cases american forces were said no to have caused All the dam age claimed. Joseph e. Killcy of the general accounting office which keep Walch in spending for Congress Lold Tan makers on thursday As a result the West German de sense Cost office paid Only about 2s per cent of the amount claimed for the a claims. Settled As of october i9fi7. This is a significantly lower rate than the Overall average of 8s percent paid for claims processed in 1986. On he basis of this substantial differ ence the . Army claims service Esti mated potential savings of up to Sio Mil lion by using pm site under the arrangement Between the two governments. The u United states pays three quarters of damages caused by . Forces and West Germany pays the rest. The West German defense Cost of fice conducts inspections of inc alleged damage and payments by the . Army generally arc based on these inspections. Sen Alan j. Dixon Diu. Who presided at the hearing said the Gao recommended in t a u that the 1 enl in strengthen its verification of claims in West Germany. Kelley testified on a draft of a new Gao report on the subject. Last fall it came to my attention thai the defense department and the array had done very Little in response to this 1980 Cao report Dinon said. Later he quoted a remark which he said came Frum Gen Hasso von Uslar a West German military attache in Washington e have a saying in Germany that the oldest son inherits the farm and the second son gels the Killcy said that investigation in other areas is needed to confirm the estimate of possible savings. As pan of the Tysl conducted in july a Man Euver damage specialist from one of the . Army units inspected the alleged damage from 94 claims filed in 1986 from the main Kinzig District in the hate of Hess in in is report the Oao reviewed inc pro cams by which the army handles claims. What we did was make a review of the whole to Lamis Pross we observed a Coorg or we visited with a couple of joint inspections in Hesson. Went to v corps and Vii corps said Sam Bawlin director of the Gao s european office in Frankfurt. A . Army spokesman said that while the service agreed with the report that Killcy gave the potential saving Are considerably less. There Are very few claims for non. Distant said maj. Gen. W i link Suler the assistant judge advocate general. In an interview Suter declined to Asti male possible savings by greater . Participation in a us sing claims. The germans Are very honest people be said. Bowlin said Friday thai the army would need to test a broader bau.1 to form a better estimate of How much could be saved by verifying Man Euver claims Suler testified that the army is asking Congress for 416 million to cover West Gurmari claims during the year begin Ning next oct. I
