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It also doesn't say if this was a No-Bid contract, essentially meaning the contract is awarded to the next company on the approved list.

However, PREPA spokesman Carlos Monroig Aceveda told weather.com that its contracts “are evaluated and awarded by the U.S. Corps of Engineers in coordination with FEMA, which disburses the money.”
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We need an independent investigative team to get to the bottom of this Russia stuff and their collusion with the democrats.

Are piss tapes involved?
What were these meetings over the uranium about?
Who attended these meetings?
Is there email involved?
Who knew the details of this sale?

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DEMAND ANSWERS.
 
Fool said:
Honest question, how much do you know about government contracts?
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Enough to know that a less than 2 year old company, with 2 employees, and less than $200k in annual revenue with direct ties to Ryan Zinke shouldn't have been awarded this contract, bid or no-bid.

I also know that the staffing rates are absurdly bloated. $330/hr for a site supervisor? $319/hr for a lineman? $462/hr for a supervisor? $332 per night for a room for each person? These are almost double the rates of similar roles in active war zones.

The rebuild will look something like this:
- Whitefish will pocket $100m and subcontract out the work to a slightly larger buddy's company
- Second buddy company will then pocket another $100m and subcontract the actual work to a barely capable company, who will have zero incentive to actually complete the work with any sort of quality or in a timely manner.
- When it inevitably fails, and PR has been robbed and left with 1/3 of it's power infrastructure completed, the R's will tout that this is why nothing should be handled by the government, and that we should privatize everything.

Am I close?
 
phaytal said:
Enough to know that a less than 2 year old company, with 2 employees, and less than $200k in annual revenue with direct ties to Ryan Zinke shouldn't have been awarded this contract, bid or no-bid.

I also know that the staffing rates are absurdly bloated. $330/hr for a site supervisor? $319/hr for a lineman? $462/hr for a supervisor? $332 per night for a room for each person? These are almost double the rates of similar roles in active war zones.

The rebuild will look something like this:
- Whitefish will pocket $100m and subcontract out the work to a slightly larger buddy's company
- Second buddy company will then pocket another $100m and subcontract the actual work to a barely capable company, who will have zero incentive to actually complete the work with any sort of quality or in a timely manner.
- When it inevitably fails, and PR has been robbed and left with 1/3 of it's power infrastructure completed, the R's will tout that this is why nothing should be handled by the government, and that we should privatize everything.

Am I close?
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Indeed you are. Welcome to the world of Government contracting.
 
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This is under the presumption that he knows something about anything in the first place instead of knee jerk headlines.

He has no idea about sealed bidding and the burdensome rules inherent to gvt contracting, only what is politically expedient to his agenda / narrative,
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It was a no-bid contract, schlep.

"Techmanski said in an interview that the contract emerged from discussions between his company and the utility rather than from a formal bidding process"
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Small Montana firm lands Puerto Rico's biggest contract to get the power back on - The Washington Post
 
Fool said:
And unless I'm reading this wrong, it was given to them by PREPA.
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USCOE or FEMA chose the contract, because they are paying for it.

However, PREPA spokesman Carlos Monroig Aceveda told weather.com that its contracts “are evaluated and awarded by the U.S. Corps of Engineers in coordination with FEMA, which disburses the money.”
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The power authority, also known as PREPA, opted to hire Whitefish rather than activate the “mutual aid” arrangements it has with other utilities.

PREPA’s executive director, Ricardo Ramos, and a spokesman did not respond to emails asking why the utility didn’t activate the mutual-aid network. On a tour of the idled Palo Seco power plant, Ramos told reporters that Whitefish was the first company “available to arrive and they were the ones that first accepted terms and conditions for PREPA.”

Ramos said that the utility is “completely content” with the work Whitefish is doing. “The doubts that have been raised about Whitefish, from my point of view, are completely unfounded,” he added, saying that concerns about Whitefish were probably spread by jealous competitors.
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Honestly this simple sounds like an epic disaster hitting a bankrupt and corrupt island and government officials lining up to overpay whomever showed up first to help.
 
Whitefish wasn't the only contract issued. At least one other contract was issued to Fluor, one of the largest engineering firms on the planet.

Fluor Awarded U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Contract to Support Power Grid Repair in Puerto Rico | Fluor Newsroom

It's just very curious why Fluor, who is wholly capable of completing this work landed a $240m contract, but no name Whitefish with it's 2 employees and direct ties to Zinke got a $300m contract.

Unless of course Whitefish has hired Fluor to complete the work and $60m has disappeared in Montana.
 
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That contract is a single task order and was awarded 4 weeks after the hurricane. The Whitefish contract was within 6 days. You keep bringing up the 2 employees but ignore that they have 280 workers who aren't employees, and hiring 10-20 per day for the contract.
 
Nobody is ignoring the 280 'workers'. Those 'workers' haven't been paid a nickel by Whitefish for the PR job. They are previously used subcontractors that will likely not be used at all for the PR job. Whitefish will almost certainly sub-con the work to a larger firm.
 
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phaytal said:
Nobody is ignoring the 280 'workers'. Those 'workers' haven't been paid a nickel by Whitefish. They are potential subcontractors that will likely not be used at all. Whitefish will almost certainly sub-con the work to a larger firm. The 280 'workers' are placeholder stooges.
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They're in PR right now working.
 
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