Stuff you cannot make up, by Gizmodo:
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By now my opinion about single source/direct award/request for quote(s) contracts should be well known to regular readers. This is yet another example of a decisions which may have been the correct one (or maybe not) but just by using a non-transparent procedure it can look terrible.
The contract itself is available here.
More from Politico:
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