So yeah, tiny company made lowest bid and got contract, low bid because knew nothing about what was actually required. Lots of verbiage on how they did it all wrong.
Not a lot of words about who wrote the contract, and does it have any penalties in it for not meeting required specifications. Were there any required specifications? Who was responsible for checking on all that before accepting delivery?
Reading between the lines, I'm guessing the specifications were written loosely enough that these things meet them, despite not actually being usable for the intended purpose. The question then becomes who was in charge of writing specifications, checking bidders' qualifications, and assigning contracts. And whether those people fell down on the job because of ordinary incompetence under a lot of time pressure, or because the Trump administration is fine with steering a lot of government money to fly-by-night operators for something it didn't really want to do in the first place.
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Not a lot of words about who wrote the contract, and does it have any penalties in it for not meeting required specifications. Were there any required specifications? Who was responsible for checking on all that before accepting delivery?
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