Feds didn’t follow procurement rules in contracts with company behind ArriveCan app [Video]

Federal organizations failed to follow procurement and security rules when awarding contracts to a company behind the controversial ArriveCan app, the auditor general said Tuesday.

Last year Karen Hogan published an audit of ArriveCan, finding the government did not deliver value to taxpayers and that three federal departments disregarded federal policies and controls in awarding contracts for the development of the app.

GCStrategies was granted the largest share of those contracts. It lost its security status last year and last week the government banned it from federal contracts for seven years over its conduct.

On Tuesday Hogan published a wider audit of 106 other contracts awarded to GCStrategies by 31 federal organizations between 2015 and 2024, and found in many of …