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  • #226
    Originally posted by lord of the mark



    As im sure youre aware, sole sourcing is allowed under federal procurement regs when the competitive bidding is not worth it (small procurements, for example), or when speed is required, as in national security emergencies in war time. Going into Iraq they didnt know what would be broken, and so couldnt put out bids in advance, and after it was broken they needed things done quickly.
    Actually, a lot of very standard items were well known as being broken, dysfunctional, or in need of augmentation or replacement. Given that work couldn't start before the war ended (at least in specific areas where the work was to be performed) there was arguably no need to bypass normal notice, solicitation and NOPA procedures, as those could have been bid conditionally right before the invasion.

    Basically, a month or two prior (no surprise here, since we all knew about US forces in Kuwait and shipboard hoping to offload in Turkey), you announce solitication for certain consulting services related to infrastructure and needs assessments, and also several standardized items (local power generation and water treatment plants can be prepackaged as one example).

    There is probably not one contract in the entire affair that had a legitimate need to go sole source, but "good" contracting officers (who often retire from the government to go work on the dark side ) know how to write sole source justifications.

    Now it may be that sole sourcing was used more than can be justified. I presume thats under investigation.
    I think the items investigated are limited to predatory pricing, not sole sourcing, as Halliburton, not the procurement agencies, are the ones being investigated.
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    • #227
      Kerry speaks tonight
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      • #228
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        • #229
          Clark's doing pretty decently, better than I expected.
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          • #230
            Clark was great, because he planted the Flag in the Democratic party, while Repugs have been trying to portray us as not supporting our troops.

            Biden had a good line that I heard. He referenced the Cuban Missle Crises. John Kennedy sent his Secretary of State to Charles DeGaulle, President of France, to get support for action. Mr. Secretary presented DeGaulle with intelligence, but the President held up his hand. He said he had no need, because he trusted that Kennedy would never mislead him on matters of War and Peace.

            That could not be said today regarding the current administration.
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            • #231
              Just watched 2 speeches, first one was some guy named Joe and after that was Clark..

              I think that Joe gave a good speech. He commanded the crowd with his speaking skills, which I thought was pretty good. Maybe just a tiny bit more charisma, and he'd be a good candidate himself.

              Then to Clark, obviously got the crowd fired up, and for a General he did good job as far as performance goes.

              It's pretty entertaining to watch actually.

              When is the Republican's national convention?
              In da butt.
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              • #232
                I missed Joe Biden's speech.

                And the Joementum is as expected.
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                • #233
                  Pekka, the GOP convention is in a couple months.
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                  • #234
                    Joe's speech was OK, but the delegates must be tired, cause everyone is getting a crappy reception- very little clapping, nothing like what other speakers got.
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                    • #235
                      The stood a few times during Clark's. They've got some groovy Willy Nelson to entertain them now.
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                      • #236
                        When is OMFG KERRIE HIMSEFL

                        speaking?
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                        • #237
                          Originally posted by DinoDoc
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                          Um Dino . . . . . Bush is not speaking at the Democratic convention.
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                          • #238
                            mitch: 10 PM...give or take...
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                            • #239
                              The Kerry daughters are looking cute.
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                              • #240
                                Originally posted by The diplomat


                                Why do you bring up Halliburton all the time? Halliburton is completely irelevant to the conversation.

                                If you want to talk about Bush's policies in the fight against terrorism, then talk about his policies:
                                - invasion of Afghanistan
                                - freezing of terrorist financial assets
                                - NATO participation in reconstruction of Afghanistan
                                - Iraq war
                                - Homeland Security Department
                                - Patriot Act

                                Those are some of Bush's policies to fight terrorism. We can discuss whether these policies are good or not, but don't bring in off-topic and irelevant issues like Halliburton which have nothing to do with terrorism at all!
                                By all means lets talk about Afghanistan.... AT THE HEIGHT of the Afghan campaign, there were 11k troops there. There are more police officers in Manhattan then there were troops in Afghanistan. And what a surprise, Osama bin Laden got away.

                                BTW, The Homeland Security Department legislation was written during the Clinton administration...

                                The Patriot Act was also pre-written, but it wasn't Clinton's brainchild. I'm sure it was basically a freedom-stealing wish-list from intelligence agencies.

                                What I don't understand is why diplomat is trying to say Bush expanding the federal bureaucracy and giving the government MORE POWER is good. I thought you were a conservative... I guess you're just a fascist.
                                To us, it is the BEAST.

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