Freeman Klopott has the story that the District’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer was overcharged by a D.C.-based company to the tune of $3.1 million, including $600,000 in profit, between 2006 and 2008. Delivering Business and Technology Solutions Inc. (DBTS), which had received close to a whopping 20 percent of OCTO’s outsourced tech projects and employs at least one former OCTO staffer, had charged D.C. for its employees’ paid time off and also lacked a paper trail for its subcontractors. (Both are pretty big no-nos in the world of procurement.)

Klopott reports that OCTO is planning on asking DBTS to return the improperly invoiced payments. But OCTO’s rather sordid record when it comes to financial matters obviously leads people to assume the worst. If anything, this story proves that there are still significant holes in OCTO’s procurement armor. Back in 2009, the FBI raided the agency’s office in the culmination of an investigation into a four-year bribery scandal, in which OCTO employees received kickbacks. Multiple people were arrested as a result of that scandal.