Glock protests modular handgun award
Soldier Systems reports that Glock is protesting Sig’s award of the contract for new handguns.
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February 27th, 2017 at 8:57 pm
Only Glock is protesting?
February 28th, 2017 at 3:26 pm
They have bid protest forms on a tear-off pad down in Smyrna.
February 28th, 2017 at 3:59 pm
What part of “good enough for government work” doesn’t Glock understand? The US isn’t paying for trademarked perfection!
February 28th, 2017 at 4:15 pm
So if I understand precedents correctly, Glock is a shoe-in for the next DoD sidearm contract in ~2045?
February 28th, 2017 at 4:23 pm
Gosh! Nobody saw that coming, huh?
March 1st, 2017 at 7:03 pm
US government contract competitions can be seriously F’ed up. A couple years ago I was on the tech review board of a small (by gov’t standards) software development contract. Only two companies actually submitted bids, and one of those was obviously not capable of completing the work. Not only did they not have people with the necessary skills, they proposed hiring the losing company as consultants for “any knowledge which we currently lack”.
You’d think that would result in a quick award to the other company, but our lawyers insisted on dragging out for a full year (with more negotiations and cost increases), just so we could keep multiple companies in the running as long as possible.
March 2nd, 2017 at 10:05 am
Protests are part of the game. Low risk high reward kinda thing. You might spend some $ paying the lawyers but if you win you get another bite at the multiple hudred million dollar contract apple