{"id":38775,"date":"2025-04-15T00:38:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T00:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/doge-uncovers-massive-va-contract-for-salary-survey-data-and-analysis-says-it-canceled-it-saving-millions\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T00:38:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T00:38:57","slug":"doge-uncovers-massive-va-contract-for-salary-survey-data-and-analysis-says-it-canceled-it-saving-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/doge-uncovers-massive-va-contract-for-salary-survey-data-and-analysis-says-it-canceled-it-saving-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"DOGE uncovers massive VA contract for \u2018salary survey data and analysis’ \u2014 says it canceled it, saving millions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of Veterans Affairs<\/a> canceled an “unreasonably priced” $15.3 million contract in an effort to overhaul how the agency cares for its warfighters, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Great work by the @DeptVetAffairs cancelling an unreasonably priced multi-year $15.3M services contract for \u2018salary survey data and analysis,” a DOGE post on X states.\u00a0<\/p>\n

SENATE CONFIRMS DOUG COLLINS TO LEAD THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The contract cost the agency $3.9 million annually.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was replaced by a “market price” of $5,000, DOGE said, saving $11.1 million over the life of the agreement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018CHANGES THAT ACTUALLY HELP OUR VETERANS\u2019: VA SECRETARY DEFENDS PROPOSED 15% WORKFORCE REDUCTION<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Earlier this month, DOGE said the VA was paying $380,000 per month<\/a> for minor website modifications. The contract was renewed and the work was not being done by one internal VA software engineer spending 10 hours per week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In February, the VA announced that the dismissal of more than 1,000 employees would enable the agency to redirect more than $98 million annually in resources back to health care, benefits and services for VA beneficiaries.<\/p>\n

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VA Secretary Doug Collins has defended DOGE cuts at the VA as part of the new administration’s efforts to reform the department and better serve veterans.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital’s Greg Wehner contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Department of Veterans Affairs canceled an “unreasonably priced” $15.3 million contract in an effort to overhaul how the agency cares for its warfighters, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said Monday.\u00a0 “Great work by the @DeptVetAffairs cancelling an unreasonably priced multi-year $15.3M services contract for \u2018salary survey data and analysis,” a DOGE post on … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}