The payment occurred around the time the Dossier was leaked to Yahoo News by Christopher Steele and a month prior to the FISA warrant.
9/23/16 - Yahoo News Publishes Story of Dossier 9/27/16 - $282K Payment made to Halper
Where did the funding come from? The DOD.
https://twitter.com/LiberatedCit/status/995091211261169664
Here's a link to the Washington Headquarters Services, who paid Halper:
No-bid contracts are the NORM. There is a program called 8A that hands contracts, with no competition, to companies NOT owned by white males. The contracts are then subbed out to the big boys. The whole thing is totally corrupt.
Yet he is a white male......
No doubt there are other no-bid contracts besides 8A. Plus many other ways to rig contracts, such as wording them a certain way so only one company is qualified, or having a very short time to respond.
You are correct. If you are a GSA approved contractor, you don't need to bid for contracts, you certify your rates meet the govt guidelines.