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Boeing refunded $76,849 after the inspector general determined it sold the Army a dime-sized, plastic ramp gate roller assembly used on the CH-47 helicopter for $1,678.61 apiece when the Pentagon Defense Logistic Agency had them in stock for $7.71 each.
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I would blame the government PML for that. When verifying procurement data, they should have caught that it was available in the system and that they did not need to spare it.
But then, that knife cuts both ways.
We are/were the spares stock point for a piece of aviation test equipment that we built for the Navy. Once interim support ended, we were to pass all inventory and usage/demand data to DLA.
DLA refused all of it. They did not want the parts or data, no matter how hard we tied to give it to them.
Months later when the demand built up and the fleet had assets NRFI for non-available parts, DLA finally figured out we were the OEM and contacted us for a RFQ to build new assemblies. They still refused to accept the RFI inventory sitting on shelves and insisted we built new.....