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Originally Posted by Dozer523
Maybe a reaction to news like this article. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...y.html?hpid=z1
" take advantage of its status as an Alaska native-owned company to obtain contracts of unlimited size without competition. A 2010 investigation by The Washington Post found that some native corporations regularly served as pass-through companies, securing contracts and then turning to larger, more established firms to do the work. |
Indeed, I have a family member that works at ARDEC and I remember discussing technical support responsiveness with regards to the contractors that were tasked with the job. He mentioned that the small Alaska based contractor that was originally responsible was very good, however, when the contract was up for renewal, another Alaska based contractor won the bid and responsiveness went down the rat hole, it took him 4 weeks just to get a junior engineer under him setup with a machine. The technicians were actually from Honeywell...
ETA: Isn't this(the minority) his voting block? I don't like it, chances are this is going to be replaced with something worse...