[Starboard]

You make a good point about contracting to fix this disaster. Given the magnitude of the work and the fact that there are many qualified vendors that could do the remediation work, competition would normally be required. And there is NO WAY a real competition of this size and complexity could be done in less than a year’s time. Somebody is cutting corners in awarding this work despite FAR prohibitions against doing such things.

Republicans should be asking probing questions, but that may be too much to expect of them.

Then there’s the question of how to pay for the work. The original system costs around $600 million so its reasonable to assume that this major re-work effort will cost at least a third of that amount. Perhaps more. Where does all this money suddenly come from?

[bert]

Only a fool or a scoundrel would enter a contract to be involved with the fiasco

The fool will fail, the scoundrel will steal the money and run

[tanknetter]

You make a good point about contracting to fix this disaster. Given the magnitude of the work and the fact that there are many qualified vendors that could do the remediation work, competition would normally be required. And there is NO WAY a real competition of this size and complexity could be done in less than a year’s time. Somebody is cutting corners in awarding this work despite FAR prohibitions against doing such things.

Thank you.

Something else for everyone's consideration - I'm guessing that the Obama Administration is now doing with its attempts to "fix" ObamaCare EXACTLY what Liberals accused Bush/Cheney of doing with Halliburton.

How. Sweet. It. Is.