🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3d5b2d8c$1@nntp0.pdx.net>,
Brian <Witch*Dr@usa.nojunkemail.net.ru> wrote:
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>"Eric Dew" <edew@olagrande.net> wrote in message
>news:ajdt39$8o1$1@og1.olagrande.net...
>> No doubt private companies will provide much better service than any
>> federal program.  But as a tax payer, who is funding that delicious
>> meal you guys get, I do want to know if I'm getting my money's worth.
>> That's all.  The only way I can tell is compare it to competing offers.
>
>I would guess that it's comparable because the reason B&R was there was a
>money saving issue. They looked at what it would cost for the Army to do it
>Vs. having them do it and outsourcing is a better way to do it. Normally we
>rely on the Fed supply system to import a lot of stuff from the states. The
>food we had was all bought on the "local" market (a lot trucked in from
>Hungary and Germany) and we had local civilians preparing it. The average
>Croat or Bosnian wasn't making a whole lot when you compare it to a bunch of
>Army personnel (not to mention we've had a shortage of troops for a while).
>Those personnel have to be continually rotated out, are making tax free
>wages, etc. When you compare them to a Federal worker...well..the savings
>are drastic. Before B&R we were getting one shitty hot meal a day and the
>other 2 were MRE's. MRE's are not as cheap as one would think, they cost
>around $6.50 per. 1 Box of MRE's (12x) weighs 20Lbs. All of them have to be
>shipped over from the states (more $$$)  All in all I think it was a win/win
>for the Government. They got a cheaper deal and we got better support.

I'm suggesting that there may be another private (i.e., non-government
entity) company that might want to take on the contract, maybe for a bit
less, and even possibly offer an even better support.  It seems like
what B & R were offering is some sort of catering service.  Well, maybe
some nationally known catering service (Sodexho [sp?] for example) might
want to make a go at it.  I don't know if they can do it, or if they
want to even bother bidding.  But, we'll never know if the bid was never
open to all possible interested parties, right?

EDEW