"What you talkin' 'bout, Willis?"
Posted on 11/03/2012 11:36:04 AM PDT by ruralvoter
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has placed a rush order of two million meals to be delivered to Floyd Bennett New York Harbor Parks, and Lakehurst New Jersey.
The solicitation was placed at 2:30 pm EST on 2 November 2012, with a response time of no later than 8 pm on the same day.
The solicitation was amended less than four hours later for providers to provide a quote of four million meals, preferably of the self-heating
variety.
The request is for self-heating Meals Ready to Eat (MRE) with a 13-month shelf life preferred, and delivered wrapped and palletized by 4:30 PM local time on Monday, 5 November 2012.
One half will be shipped to Floyd Bennett New York Harbor Parks and that will be due on 6 Nov 2012, the other one million will ship to Lakehurst New Jersey and be due the following day.
It would have made far more sense for the Army to be asked to take their domestic stockpiles of MREs and immediately put them on transports to NY and NJ. Then have the Army put out bids to replenish their inventories at leisure.
Even more sense: have the Army send every mobile field kitchen unit it has east of the Mississippi to the Sandy-hit areas, and set up there. It would be good training, and the Army could rotate their stock in the process.
"What you talkin' 'bout, Willis?"
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