From first page to the back page. I think that as a matter of policy and procedure and human rights we should have the posting of passports in nepal. I dont question for a minute we should have it from day one. We will now going forward. Anything we communicate to the nepalese we do it both in english as well as the nepalese including their contracts, their Employment Contracts thank the chairman for additional time, and i yield back. Thank you. Now recognize mr. Cummings for five minutes. Thank you very much mr. Chairman. Id like to discuss the examination of two Construction Contracts at the kabul embassy. The first one was in 2009 and the second was awarded in 2010 to a different contractor, thats correct . Thats correct. Can you briefly describe the two things that were contracted and their estimated completion dates . I believe the 2009 contract was to construct a number of temporary offices and housing. It was also to construct an Office Complex that my state colleagues have refe
I do. Thats the exact figurersment the scope of the project is 2. 2 billion. The em if a sis is on desks. Isnt it by the end of the year rethe administration is supposed to have all the troops out . Do you know . By the end of ethics year well have probably one of the best arrays of desks you have ever seen in any post. I was over there and some of the Foreign Ministry folks. Are are we going to be buddy 31 . Does anyone know . If i may this refers back to the point i head that we have tried to be flexible and responsive in terms of staffing. I know. But again, a desk would suppose a person is sitting there. Vacant desks are another matterer. We are building this is a 2. 2 billion dollar project. Its probably the biggest Infrastructure Project if the history of afghanistan. In a country that has revenue of about 2. 5 billion coming in. We are going to have this massive complex of desks. This will be will be the taj pa hall of desks and the complex the taxpayers are getting ripped off f
Engineers to say these are the basic requirements and put our buildings together. So we could give you many documents, i think you have requested many of those already and were in the process of giving those, so im happy again to have our folks work with yours and to prioritize the list of things that youre asking for and to make sure that you get every single thing that youre asking for. This is sort of the recurring theme here. Were asking what was the plan for kabul, and there wasnt one. What is the plan for Design Excellence as opposed to standard embassy design, which was pretty fairly clearly defined. There are plans for both. And we can provide you documents for all of those things if we havent already. That would be great, because we have been asking for a long period of time. And we still havent got to that point where you could say, all right, now based on this, you should be able to understand everything were doing with Design Excellence. Thats what were trying to get to. Th
Notified the congress that they needed additional funds because the threat required over head cover for their temporary facilities. In 200 they contracted for temporary buildings that did not specify the need for overhead cover. Let me give an opportunity for miss muniz from your perspective on that question of not accepting all the standards and where youre at now. Sir the recommendation to have different standards for temporary structures has struck us as strange. We try there are different facilities . Well, the problem is that invariably when i have seen standards for temporary structures or interim facilities, its a lowering of the standard. What im afraid of is that we will by virtue of the fact that you a trailer is a trailer we will have lower levels of Security Standards for them, rather than striving to meet the real standard. An example is that for many years, all we had was construction trailers. Over the last several years we developed a heavily armored trailer that we can
And that is the involvement of Security Experts in development of the Design Excellence program. I know there were some who were on the commission to develop it. But ms. Munaz and mr. Green, if you could address the actual input of the Security Experts into the program and setting standards in the program, and whether theres an ongoing effort to keep the Security Experts involved. Beyond what the state department comes up with on its own. One of the criticisms that has happened has been that the state department has underestimated the security needs and the security threats. And i want to make sure as we move forward and build these embassies that security considerations are part of that ongoing process of assessment. So if you could sort of address that, starting from who was on the initial commission and whether that involvement and security continues and mr. Green, if you could gives your assessment as a security expert yourself. Im not really a security expert. You led the committe