Pentagon's Prime Vendor Program pays $20.00 for .85 cent ice cube trays.

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Posted on Sun, Oct. 23, 2005
Pentagon's prime-vendor program seen as costlier

By LAUREN MARKOE and SETH BORENSTEIN

Knight Ridder News Service


WASHINGTON - The Pentagon paid $20 apiece for plastic ice-cube trays that once cost it 85 cents. It paid a supplier more than $81 apiece for coffee makers that it bought for years for just $29 from the manufacturer.

The reason: Instead of getting competitive bids or buying directly from manufacturers, as it used to, the Pentagon is using middlemen who set their own prices. It's the equivalent of shopping for weekly groceries at a convenience store.

And it's costing taxpayers 20 percent more than the old system, a Knight Ridder investigation found.


Much, much more, here:
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/nation/12977193.htm

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1. sounds like more than 20% more to me . . . . .

and on top of these profits, the busheviks gave them important tax relief to help stimulate the economy. it's time for the fucking to stop.