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I think I can deliver a trashcan that matches specs for a mere 40k.

• cushychicken 3y ago
  I encourage you to submit a coubterproposal! I'm sure you'd learn a ton about plane based trash cans.
  • scotty79 3y ago
    And about how fake all the documentation is and about mob-like web of people involved in all of this.
  • jtbayly 3y ago
    This is the buried lede in the article. "As the Government Accountability Office recently reported, nearly 20,000 small businesses have bowed out of military contracting in the past decade, creating further opportunities for price hikes." Why did 43% of the small businesses that used to do business with the government stop? And what has happened since 2020? I know multiple small manufacturing businesses that would never consider accepting a government contract. One of the many reasons is the way the government force its contractors all the way down to the lowest levels (contractors of contractors of the big 5 gov contractors) to follow a million nonsense Covid rules. I suspect the number of small businesses willing to work for the government has dropped even more in the last three years.
• Symmetry 3y ago
  If you're not already in the business then hiring the talent to submit a conforming bid for the contract to deliver the trashcan will run you more than $40k.