The Congress member is achieving Fintech RAMP to win a federal contract worth $ 25 million

Representative Gerald Conoli, a member of the US House of Representatives Control Committee, has begun to achieve whether the slope of the startup of the expense management is receiving preferential treatment in its attempt A government contract worth $ 25 million.

Konolly A. sent a letter To the Public Services Department (GSA) Acting, Stephen Ikian, demanding information and documents related to GSA’s Establishment plans Granting a contract for a trial program for the slope. The investigation news was reported for the first time ProPublica.

Among the most important concerns of Conluli is that Ramb claims to be “federal contracting experience” and that its investors include a number of Trump’s allies and their supporters. Among these investors are the Peter Thiel Fund; Keith Rabois from Khosla Ventures; Thrive Capital, founded by Josh Kushner, brother of Trump’s son -in -law; Trump’s audio supporter 8VCJoe Lonsale and Jeep Bush, former governor of Florida and brother of former Republican President George W. Bush. According to the letter of Conluli, Rabua raised more than a million dollars for Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign.

Connolly requires several things from GSA, including a detailed list of all meetings between any GSA official and any slope representative and all contacts between any official or subcontractor or subcontractor and any slope representative.

The government’s internal expenses card program, called Smartpay, is a program worth $ 700 billion. Currently, Citibank and US Bank, one of the largest credit cards suppliers in the country, is the official banks of the current Smartpay contract.

In April, the head of the RAMP Communications, Lindsay MCKINLEY, told Techcrunch that the startup was “competing in a record purchase of the Pilot Smartpay program based on the strength of our solution.”

She claimed that the slope starting the saw General publication on x The Ministry of Governmental efficiency, known as Dawij, shares on February 18, which said, “The United States government has currently has active 4.6 million credit cards/cards, which dealt with about 90 meters unique transactions for $ 40 billion in spending in the fiscal year 24.”

A former customer, RAMP, made allegations, slope to GSA a few days later.

However, Konoli claims that RAMP has started contacting entities in the payment industry on the private banking numbers required to process government payments before announcing the information request (RFI).

He also claimed that a GSA employee recently stated that RAMP was “favorite” to win this work.

RAMP did not have any comment on the investigation of the Conley.

In March, a slope Her evaluation doubled To 13 billion dollars after the sale of secondary stocks of $ 150 million. Since its establishment in 2019, the startup has raised more than one billion dollars in stock financing and $ 700 million in the financing of the committed debt.