Re: Call Her an Idiot

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From: Brian
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 12:54

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"Eric Dew" <edew@olagrande.net> wrote in message
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> 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?

Yes, it was an open process. Esco and another company who I can't recall
(Bechtel?)had operations at other bases. Remember, the contract was for
complete infrastructure not just food. There's power generation, water,
showers, tents, etc. Sprint got the contract for network/telecom operations
and they sucked. We ended up kicking them out.

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