SAIC gets no-bid $2 -$17M sweetheart deal for scissors disposal!

[LunaC]

Naw, SAIC has no vested interest in making sure BBV keeps the current admin at the helm....

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sandiego-sub/index.html?ts=1066335251&classchk=pass

San Diego's Science Applications International Corp., which works on thousands of contracts for the Pentagon and CIA, has landed a contract from the federal agency responsible for airport security. SAIC is now responsible for disposal of the pocketknives, nail clippers, blowtorches, fireworks and other prohibited items forfeited by airline passengers at airport security checkpoints nationwide.

The Transportation Security Administration, which announced the contract award Wednesday, describes the petty plunder as "voluntarily abandoned property." The TSA said the SAIC contract is valued at $2 million for the first seven months, and could rise as high as $17 million if all options are exercised.

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While there was no competitive bidding for the TSA order, spokesman Jennifer Marty said the award was properly issued to SAIC under an umbrella services program overseen by the General Services Administration.

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Is it just me or is $17M a lot for sorting butane lighters from scissors and nail clippers?

[LunaC]

1. Wrong forum - sorry

I'll move it to GD.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa!

[tom_paine]

2. How Soviet we have become!

How easily we accept the Sovietized Bushevik "bidding" process as normal.

Ok, we aren't yet dusting off the creamatoria remains of murdered Bushevik opponenets yet, but this certainly belongs to the same family of corruptance acceptance.

By this, I mean our blithe acceptance of Bushevik "legalized" kickback and fraud regarding this Soviet-style "no-bid" contract system.

[central scrutinizer]

3. David Kay worked there

The hand-picked toady Bushco sent to Iraq to find WMD was VP at this place - this must be his compensation for cobbling a bunch of nebulous paper documents into a case for war.

[MGKrebs]

4. Don't they have dumpsters at the airport?

WTF?

[SoCalDem]

5. They don't even need ANY disposal..

Each flight could have a plain old cardboard box, and when a nail clippers gets "confiscated" (like JUST happened to my husband in Tahiti...toe nail clippers :eyes:.), why not tape a numbered ticket to the item, and give the passenger the other half... All the confiscated stuff from that flight goes in the box, the box gets sealed and put in the belly of the plane...At the destination, the box goes to security at the baggage claim, and the passenger just picks it up on the other end.. It's FREE.. Of course, really dangerous stuff anf firearms would be exempt..

[diamond14]

6. nice graphics...if that concept could only get into mainstream

media....maybe George Soros would fund full page ads in major papers showing that 'easy-to-understand' graphic....