On Fri, 23 May 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote:
A government contract handed out not on technical merit, but for back room political reasons ? Shocking!
---Mike
At 01:33 PM 23/05/2003 -0700, Bill Woodcock wrote:
> According to this article, yes they were involved with > AWCC: > http://www.afghanwireless.com/news_6apr.html
Ouch. If they were responsible for AWCC, that would hardly seem to be a basis for awarding them another similar contract.
The funny this is at the state agencies I've worked for we were *required* to go through a bidding procedure prior to getting final approval for a purchase. Unless we had an established relationship with a given company for similar products or services we had to follow the procedures. I wouldn't at all be surprised to hear that sometime in the very near future a lawsuit was filed by various other telcos to try and get a piece of the pie or get the administration to be fair towards other telcos. Who says it has to be a US telco? Why can't it be a UK telco? Justin