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I would assume they were the lowest bidder.

• robertcope 10y ago
  Or paid the right people the most in campaign contributions.
  • azernik 10y ago
    There's a reason procurement decisions like this are delegated to career civil servants - they have much fewer valid excuses to be socializing with vendors. Corruption in this context usually instead takes the form of job offers post-retirement; and that's usually most common in military procurement, where early retirement from public service is the norm.
    • ryacko 10y ago
      this is why that lobbyists and bureaucrats go through a revolving door they go from government to private sector to government again like Comey
    • syshum 10y ago
      >There's a reason procurement decisions like this are delegated to career civil servants - they have much fewer valid excuses to be socializing with vendors. This is simply false. Regular Capture and the revolving door are rampant at telecommunications companies
  • Spooky23 10y ago
    Evidence? It was a well known, public RFP. Several teams responded. It's unlikely that AT&T won the award for any reason other than how their proposal was scored.