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So is this just a miniature version of how most government contract bids work? Somebody bids something stupidly low, and then tries to deal with that problem l

• Omnipresent 11y ago
  Not at all. Most govt. contracts work like this: Govt. opens a Request For Proposal on FedBizOps [0], vendors review the proposal, ask questions, govt. tries to answer all questions from all vendors and releases all answers again on [0]. Then vendors submit their proposals with written explanation of how they'll do the work, also, they are required to submit how much it will cost the govt. When the proposal date closes, the govt. sets up a review board that goes through all the proposals by vendors and reviews them based on competency and price. This review panel picks one vendor to win the proposal. [0] - https://www.fbo.gov/ https://www.fbo.gov/
• roel_v 11y ago
  That's how it used to work, but most places have much more nuanced processes in place now. Which makes it especially laughable how the guys in the GP apparently didn't even do a basic search on the state of the art in procurement and have to learn all the mistakes of the last 20 years on their own :)