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Re: Insert Tab A into...wait, which one's Slot B?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:46:59 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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No. Why would you think so?
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I seem to remember hearing something to that effect in a poli sci class back in
high school, but we might have been given a simplified version (since, after
all, it wouldn’t make sense for them to accept a $1000 bid from me to build a
working space probe when they should know that would be impossible at that
price). Regardless of the source, it was explained to me that the purpose for
this requirement was to prevent conflicts of interest (friendship, kickbacks,
etc.) on behalf of the people making such decisions. Now, admittedly, my view
of LM’s status in this situation might be horribly tainted by the (in)competence
demonstrated in many Michigan road construction projects (in my city, we had a
main road torn up for over a year, with work completely halted for at least six
of those months because the ONE person who knew what was going on was put in
the hospital by a blow to the head, and he’d left no written plans for anyone
else to work from).
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1 - At least most of the ones I’ve personally helped fill out the responses
to do not say lowest bidder wins. Perhaps most of the ones you’ve responded
to don’t, I can’t say.
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We never even got to the point of bidding. The one time when we were offered a
government contract, it was a situation where the Navy was asking us to
vacuum-form parts that required internal supports and a level of micro-detail
that could only be produced through injection-molding. We did get a good laugh
out of it, though...
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