[9181] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: AT+T would have offered ATM if requested?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dennis Perry - Unisys)
Mon Dec 20 15:54:24 1993
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 93 15:51:20 EST
From: perry@stars.reston.paramax.com (Dennis Perry - Unisys)
To: andyni@microsoft.com, com-priv@psi.com
Cc: perry@stars.reston.paramax.com
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>Unless the DOE specified some other technology than ATM, then I doubt
>that there was anything unreasonable going on. And if the DOE
>specified a technology which gave one vendor an unfair advantage, then
>the RFP should have been contested and changed.
>
>
It is my understanding that they in fact did specify a technology
other than ATM. AT&T probably felt that that they met the
requirements of the RFP and that any other bidding that technology
did also, but ATM was not what was requested.
By the way, I am not suggesting that AT&T or anyother is right
or wrong, but RFP's are won and lost on technicalities because
of the much touted way the government procurement works. One way
for the government to improve things would be to change that
process (many have tried but few have succeeded!)
dennis
