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Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo
But surely someone in the govt would have enough it knowledge to say, 'you are extracting the urine'. Don't they look at the offer the contractor has made and review it. Why not just give the person a credit laden credit card for them to use on any laptop?
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You'd think. In fact, they do. What happens (or did in my experience) is that someone spots what is happening. They then report it to their management who make same soothing noises about investigating the problem until the fuss dies down, then quietly forget about it without actually having done something.
In the meantime, the contracts drawn up with the companies do apparently tie some things down quite tightly, but the companies involved work hard to exploit every loophole in the contract they can.
What has probably happened here is that the contracts were probably drawn up a couple of years ago, and these contracts specified both the spec and the price. Both of these would have been OK (if not brilliant) a couple of years ago. The companies will expect the government to stick to that rigidly, as the goverment will.