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10 Recommendations From the GAO on Post-Disaster Local Contracting

Bottom line: Contract locally first!

The 10 recommendations coming out of this Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, Actions Needed to Improve the Use of Post-Disaster Contracts to Support Response and Recovery.

They generally all read the same — priority goes in post-disaster situations to contracting locally. If you don't, you need to document why.

The report also noted that the 2017 mega-disasters that this report looked at impacted 15 percent of the United States' population. That is a pretty big number!

Appropriately, Claire Rubin, Recovery Diva, shared the link above.

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.