Kraut783
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I have no idea, but thought I would post it up.
I have no idea, but thought I would post it up.
Isn't Blackwater under constellis? I know that the holdings company has acquired most others, including academi... Which is Blackwater from my understanding. Academi has had plenty of contracts in my industry, although they are generally low experience butts in seats types.
The name Blackwater is tainted in the PMC community.
Prince kept the Intellectual Property for Blackwater, so he could use it for pretty much any new venture.Isn't Blackwater under constellis? I know that the holdings company has acquired most others, including academi... Which is Blackwater from my understanding. Academi has had plenty of contracts in my industry, although they are generally low experience butts in seats types.
Well, not exactly. There were several contracting offices in Iraq that would work with the local business men to bid contracts, manufacturing T-Walls, crane companies...etc, well....one enterprising person was a European and was hired to do contracts and could also speak Arabic, so he would spearpoint the bids for the contract office. Over three years he took bribes totaling 3+ million dollars....a few Hilux Toyotas. His theft was discovered, but he couldn't be prosecuted due to the craziness, Army CID didn't have jurisdiction, DCIS tried but couldn't bring charges....he was fired and left the middle east flying back to Europe to his millions.
He was actually a pretty nice and personable guy.
CORs were not doing their jobs
Arguably, this is the biggest problem with contracting. I'm still baffled that the DoD doesn't know how to manage contracts after all of these years and the buttloads of money spent. People bitch about contractors and their companies, but rarely will anyone complain about the contracting office abrogating its responsibility to oversee the contract. I've seen commanders complain about a contractor and do nothing, either unaware they can or unwilling to remove them from the base. "I trust Company X will do the right thing." Company X will not offer a guy the "chicken or pasta" option, instead it will keep him in place because that's how they make money. You know this, but so many people don't; they have this silly, romantic notion a company will behave honorably. It will behave like a business that is responsible to its shareholders, no more and no less.
When the COR is absent and/ or lazy, when a commander doesn't have the backbone or knowledge to deal with a person, it emboldens the contractors and companies.
In all seriousness, I'm all for empowering the contracting office more to do contract surveillance, but sadly we dont have the time and most importantly aren't given the resources to do it, because we all know contracting isn't a concern or a priority until something is fucked up or we don't execute timely enough. CORS are critical to the process and yet most of them are working in that capacity in as an ancillary duty.