[58579] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NPR morning news apparently just reported...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (listuser@numbnuts.net)
Fri May 23 17:02:36 2003
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 15:59:44 -0500 (CDT)
From: listuser@numbnuts.net
To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030523165043.033a0e50@marble.sentex.ca>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 23 May 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
>
> A government contract handed out not on technical merit, but for back room
> political reasons ? Shocking!
>
> ---Mike
>
> At 01:33 PM 23/05/2003 -0700, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>
> > > According to this article, yes they were involved with
> > > AWCC:
> > > http://www.afghanwireless.com/news_6apr.html
> >
> >Ouch. If they were responsible for AWCC, that would hardly seem to be a
> >basis for awarding them another similar contract.
The funny this is at the state agencies I've worked for we were *required*
to go through a bidding procedure prior to getting final approval for a
purchase. Unless we had an established relationship with a given company
for similar products or services we had to follow the procedures. I
wouldn't at all be surprised to hear that sometime in the very near future
a lawsuit was filed by various other telcos to try and get a piece of the
pie or get the administration to be fair towards other telcos. Who says
it has to be a US telco? Why can't it be a UK telco?
Justin
