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Execution by organ procurement

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  • LuFins DadL Offline
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    Have you ever actually read the official specifications and procedural documents for providing a bid to a state university for a pipe organ? It will likely give you an aneurysm.

    The Brad

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    • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

      Have you ever actually read the official specifications and procedural documents for providing a bid to a state university for a pipe organ? It will likely give you an aneurysm.

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      @LuFins-Dad said in Execution by organ procurement:

      Have you ever actually read the official specifications and procedural documents for providing a bid to a state university for a pipe organ? It will likely give you an aneurysm.

      Usually the way they do it is to go out shopping, pick the one they like, and then write the bid requirements in such a way that the only one that will meet specs is the one they've already picked out.

      It's illegal, but you can't do anything about it.

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        Having written more than one of those, you are correct.

        “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

        Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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          Yup. That is the way a lot of grants and bids work. LOL

          By requirement, they have to open for bids, but they also want to give the grant or bid to one group, so as Larry and Jolly say, it is written to make it difficult for anyone else to obtain.

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          • LarryL Larry

            @LuFins-Dad said in Execution by organ procurement:

            Have you ever actually read the official specifications and procedural documents for providing a bid to a state university for a pipe organ? It will likely give you an aneurysm.

            Usually the way they do it is to go out shopping, pick the one they like, and then write the bid requirements in such a way that the only one that will meet specs is the one they've already picked out.

            It's illegal, but you can't do anything about it.

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            @Larry said in Execution by organ procurement:

            @LuFins-Dad said in Execution by organ procurement:

            Have you ever actually read the official specifications and procedural documents for providing a bid to a state university for a pipe organ? It will likely give you an aneurysm.

            Usually the way they do it is to go out shopping, pick the one they like, and then write the bid requirements in such a way that the only one that will meet specs is the one they've already picked out.

            It's illegal, but you can't do anything about it.

            That is exactly how GSA contracts work. And all that falderal and wasted effort is supposed to show that the bidding is fair, when it is totally rigged.

            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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              That's why when I was in the piano business I threw bid request forms in the trash can.

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