Thanks again. That all makes sense, but if you asked me I wouldn’t have been able to lay it all out like that. Nice...
As for the sniper fire, that had been a concern of mine as well.
We may very well see troops on the border in the short term, if this does take a turn for the worse.
There are a lot of evil forces that aren’t going to like that wall at all.
I sure hope it’s a massive wall 40-60’.
Okay, this wall stuff is shaking out kind of like I predicted based upon time line issues I outlined for you about a month ago on this thread.
First of all, the RFPs (Requests for Proposals) had to be split into two series — one for the Concrete Wall sections of design and one for wall sections designed and built with other means, like exotic fencing methods due to location.
It became obvious to the Contracting Officer team that these had to be in two separate groups of award and would thus need two separate RPFs so they had to cancel the original RFP number and issue two separate RFPs to not get out of Award parameters and get a protest.
Some of the new RFPs are in the following links and from those links you can download details of the RFPs (139 pages) if you wish. Going to page 39 of one of those I see that they have spread out the Step One and Step Two time lines as I predicted would be necessary. They also state that they have a tremendous interest and lots of questions from first tier and subcontractor/vendor interested parties.
Right now I don’t have much time to research this as I have some other commitments for the next few days. Happy hunting for those that want to dig into it.
I will warn you, reading these documents are like reading Greek for the first time and only having every other page. Those of us that used to use these all the time take hours and hours to sort the detail and understand the complex legal requirements.
Like all government contracts, it will be a hard birth, but I thing its time to be in the labor room.