Why is a non-compete contract ok for Obama but not Cheney?

When Cheney challenged the detractors to find another company who could get the job done, no one could name one. yet, still it is a scandal that haunts his legacy. Obama gave the contract to supporters of his and they failed miserably and several other companies said they could have done a better job for a fraction of the time and money and asked to bid to fix it and Obama instead gave more non-competes to more of his big donors. and no one but FOX seems to think this an issue.

So Cheney had only one company that could fix the issues in Iraq and it was a time senstive project so it was awarded non-compete. Big scandal though no alternatives could be found.

Barack has hundreds of companies that have done similar things, there was almost three years to do it and most companies said it could be done in months. He awards it to his buddies. No scandal.

Why?