Every government agency has preferred vendors; if they fail to use them, they must get high level supervisors or agency heads to authorize a waiver. Even airlines and rental cars fall under this rule, as well as preferred lodging. The government competes these preferred contracts well in advance, to ensure they have capacity and fair rates for the next fiscal year. Reality is the preferred vendors provide horrible service, and the prices may actually not be so good in the new FY. This was not true fifteen years ago, and I feel the government saves no money this way. The problem with government is it is too powerful, and they never do analytics on the back end to prove that ideas were good based on objective measures. They just keep gaining power and wasting more money.
ALL wings of the Hurricane Relief Industrial Complex are active in East Tennessee at the moment...Red Cross, United Way, and more. Local companies are ‘raising money for flood relief’ with “100 of the funds collected being TAX DEDUCTIBLE and will benefit the UNITED WAYS (not the victims) of Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia Disaster Relief Funds”
According to local gas district employees who knew me, they saw my residence (and all my possessions) washed away. Gone. we were ‘Ground Zero’.
You think my wife and I will see a dime of this relief? ROTFLMAO!!!