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They paid the shakedown fee.
by xvxvx 6mo ago
They paid the shakedown fee.
- nielsbot 6mo agothat’s the outcome of soft fascism: a lot of pay to play.
- cjbgkagh 6mo agoI passed on an invitation to tender a number of years ago because there was no way to meet the minority / women quota that was tied to it. The big players use pass through front companies which isn’t feasible for me as I’m a solo operator. The Netgear thing is more egregious but the quotas are more pervasive. I would like to be rid of both.
- Spooky23 6mo agoIt’s very possible to do so. Partner with someone in the space and they take a vig. An even better option is to partner with a veteran owned entity, which often allows you to bypass the bidding process.
- cjbgkagh 6mo agoThe funding was tied to women and minorities only, so no veteran option. Also I would have had to get certified for that specific location which involves a third party that comes in and interviews the women / minorities to make sure they have actual positions of power and were not just figureheads. They had a scale down option so they could opt for a very small purchase that would actually be smaller than the audit cost let alone the cost of passing such an audit.
- Spooky23 6mo agoGotcha. Well, at least it's a legit program, although that doesn't help you. In some places this stuff is so vague that using a minority business (like say SHI) is essentially a sort of tax to win discretionary purchases with governments.
- rexpop 6mo agoWhat Trump is doing is outright grift; payola, racketeering. And you think it's a good moment to complain about affirmative action?
- cjbgkagh 6mo agoHow do you think we got the grifting government? It is because people were upset with what the democrats were doing. Maybe if they stopped doing that they wouldn’t have lost. They’ve failed to lean and since Trump is so bad they still won’t need to learn and will continue their mistakes and keep losing.