What was it we heard ad nauseum from MSM about no bid contracts for the Iraq Battle?
Seems these gimme programs are just fine for a certain subset of citizens, but not for others. No surprise here.
There is no such thing as a DoD no-bid contract over the simplified acquisition threshold (SAT) of $25,000. By law, all proposed acquisitions that exceed the threshold are to be published on the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website for public review, comment and bidding opportunity.
There are sole source contracts, which were originally published for competitive bid as required by law and the subsequent market research proved there is no other qualified supplier for that particular item or service. There are follow on contracts for production, sometimes also classified as sole source, for items that were originally prototyped under RDT&E by a particular company under a competitive bid contract.
Bottom line...ALL contracts in excess of the SAT were originally awarded under a competitive bidding process. What comes of that process determines how that contract is handled in the future.
What really hacks me off is when the left spouts off about Halliburton getting no bid contracts when they competitively bid with several other companies on the LOGCAP procurement in 2001. LOGCAP was a multi-year ID/IQ supercontract under which task orders were issued for emergency services. These task orders are what they are referring to as "no bid" and that is just flat out a false statement. More info: