door repair bill

[DCortez]

[url]http://www.recovery.gov/?q=content/contracts-recipient-summary&id=57-FA466106D0006&primeid=1400[/URL]


Wonder what kind of door it is. Spending $1,444,100 to repair it, I'm guessing it's a good one.

 

[juwaba98]

Hmm, perhaps a hangar door. It is at an Air Force Base, and Building 5112 shows to be an aircraft hangar. At $250-400 average for a plain jane 6-panel steel residential 36"x80" exterior door, I could easily see a $1.5million repair bill for something slightly larger.

 

[DCortez]

I figured it had to be a bank vault type or submarine's screen door.

 

[juwaba98]

So you too have noticed the increased price in commercially available screen doors?

 

[D-Day]

looks like the door was $246,100.

The $1,198,000 looks to be for replacing gas mains.

So its still a cheap door.

 

[texas1willy2]

That door is nothing imagine how good this ham must be?
frozen+ham.jpg (image)

 

[DCortez]

That door is nothing imagine how good this ham must be?
frozen+ham.jpg (image)

I think I heard Hannity say it wasn't a bad deal. It's only twice the price of Food Lion's normal price. Not bad for government work.


Didn't listen to the whole thing, Hannity is too much of a little girl. 10 seconds is my limit.

 

[texas1willy2]

I think I heard Hannity say it wasn't a bad deal. It's only twice the price of Food Lion's normal price. Not bad for government work.


Didn't listen to the whole thing, Hannity is too much of a little girl. 10 seconds is my limit.

If they are paying 1.2 million dollars for 2 pounds of ham I have some rolls I need to sell them.

 

[TexasRedneck]

Hate to bust your rant....<G>, but it's a contract for 2-lb hams. Not a PO for a single ham.

 

[texas1willy2]

Hate to bust your rant....<G>, but it's a contract for 2-lb hams. Not a PO for a single ham.

Thats what I heard, that is not what the PO says. I understand that they are doing most of the PO's like that, my thought was it's easier for them to explain the few that get brought to there attention. I call BS and I amazed that people would except this garbage for an excuse.
Because the government couldn't really take the time to make a receipt that would include what they are really buying?

 

[TexasRedneck]

My friend, I've dealt w/government PO's for 30+ years - they list what they're buying, and the total project value of the contract, NOT for quantity, because that's usually a varying amount. It's simply the way they do it. But feel free to figure I'm wrong, and continue to believe your way!<G>

 

[texas1willy2]

My friend, I've dealt w/government PO's for 30+ years - they list what they're buying, and the total project value of the contract, NOT for quantity, because that's usually a varying amount. It's simply the way they do it. But feel free to figure I'm wrong, and continue to believe your way!<G>

My problem is not with you it's with a crooked government and nothing you have told me convinces me of anything other than maybe it's been going no longer than I thought.

 

[TexasRedneck]

<sigh>

Tell you what - under the FOI Act, you have the right to submit an inquiry regarding the PO. Do so, and tell us what you find out.

When you discover I'm right, a simple "Mea Culpa" will suffice. There's enough screwy in this world without someone that doesn't understand things starting stuff where there's nothing.

And BTW - did some further digging since you couldn't be bothered to find out the ENTIRE story - that PO was for 800,000 lbs. of sliced ham.

 

[texas1willy2]

I'm new to this internet bickering what does <G> stand for?

 

[TexasRedneck]

<G> = Grin

 

[texas1willy2]

I was well aware of the amount of ham that was really bought, I had listened to Hannity talk about it on the radio before all this got going. We also talked about that #7 in this thread.

It supposedly amounted to them paying 2 times more than what you could have bought it from at the grocery store. Why should I expect the government to negotiate a good price on something, especially when they are buying in such large quantities?

As far as you saying that filling out PO that haphazardly is standard procedure with the government. Well I'm not arguing that it's not, I'm saying it's wrong and I contend that it's easier to hide what amounts to thief that way.

Imagine what would happen if you went to an IRS audit with that kind of paper work?

I'm dealing with a government contract at this very minute and I assure you that the amount of paper work we are having to fill out is NOTHING like the paper work I posted earlier.

I can only assume your on the winning end of some of these contracts for you to get so defensive over what amounts to OUR money being wasted by these guys.

 

[TexasRedneck]

Congrats, Texas1Willy2 - you're the first guy I'm figgerin' is a *troll*. IF (big if based on your comments) you REALLY deal w/government contracts you KNOW the amount of oversight involved - but when you accuse me *personally* of being involved in the waste of it, you go WAY over the line.
Someone familiar with governmental contracts knows the stuff posted up on an award notice doesn't begin to reflect the amount of paperwork actually involved in the bids - and also knows that the information provided is just barely enough to allow those that bid on the contract information to evaluate why they didn't get it.