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Originally Posted by Wagner
Hmm, you told doctors how health care really works and now DoD contractors how DoD contracting works...you have skills.
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I'm a DoD contractor as well, and so are probably many thousands of small businesses across the country.
So how many full time lobbyists do you have working for you? How many millions of dollars did you contribute to political campaigns last year?
My point is that I'm talking about the top ten or so DoD contractors, not your smaller businesses.
The vehicles of subject in your article are a million dollars per vehicle. That means a typical contract for such a vehicle probably numbers in the billions of dollars. I don't know about you, but the contracts my company has with the DoD are typically each in the $1k-$5k range and maybe I have serveral at the time time -- not even close to the type of stuff we're talking about here.
And as for the rules of contracting, let's say that they can easily be broken if the DoD employee you are dealing with really wants to buy from you. They simply have to say that no other company can offer the product that you offer. In my case, my company offers music that they use in production. And indeed, I am the only company that can offer the exact music that I offer. There are about 30 other companies in the US that do the same exact thing that I do. But they all have their music which is not 100% identical to mine. So at times, I have gotten contracts without having to go through the bid process.