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Army Looks to Learn Lesson from Contract to 22 Year-Old
It looks like the Pentagon is just in a lesson-learning mood lately. While they're busily reviewing whether the carefully-orchestrated use of military analysts was improper, the Army is reviewing whether it should have known better than to award a $300 million contract to supply arms to the Afghan security forces to a company run by a 22 year-old.
As The New York Times reports, the key lesson seems to be that if a contractor's price seems too good to be true, then it probably is.
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It's a good thing the Army is willing to learn. Maybe the Procurement Officers wondered what those binders on their desks were for or the contract classes they sat through? Take for example the literally thousands of pages of FAR and DFAR that Procurement Officers must know and reference in memos to file for justifications after the bid process and prior to contract award. This is the Bush Administration and we don’t need no stinking regulations!
April 28, 2008 12:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed, those stinking regulations just get in the way of ripping the taxpayers off - now to the tune of about $5 Trillion under the Bush Administration.
And that is just the actual dollar amount of the National debt. It does not count the costs of inflation - just look at the gas and food prices and one realizes that the inflation figures the Feds are putting out are understated (they are lying again) by several orders of magnitude.
April 28, 2008 3:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Aw, isn't that face the face of someone you would trust with a mere $300 million? I mean, talk about chicken feed. This administration doesn't even make bookkeeping entries for amounts that small.
Why, I know 22 year olds who get allowances bigger than that.
April 28, 2008 3:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, the neocon administration installed a right-wing, fundamentalist, baby wet behind the ears without any real world experience to head up the new Iraqi stock exchange.
This sounds like progress in the direction of maturity to me. Maybe the Bush administration is beginning to learn.
I hope so because we can ill afford any more of their beginners mistakes.
April 29, 2008 1:53 AM | Reply | Permalink