End result - the only ones that bid are the ones that consulted in building up the nonsense over the years. They weren’t talking to procurement. They were talking to an agency’s execs and/or IT departments about their latest “enterprise COTS” thing that’ll fix it.
Maybe instead of focusing on government's risk-averse culture, we should talk about how toxic its relationship to failure is. There's a deep-seated belief that failure is the worst possible thing that could happen, and maybe this is a root cause for so many behaviors.
NEW: I wrote about one of the greatest traitors the US has ever produced, a man who deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Benedict Arnold: Robert E. Lee.
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@Randy22401 This is the twins’ neighborhood. (Get the +Alt button off of the after photo). Forgot to inquire about tornado risks before we moved to the area. Since it’s suburban Philadelphia.
#BREAKING YIKES!!!! A friend sent this photo of Upper Dublin High School. The roof covering the indoor pool was ripped off! Per our weather team, a tornado was confirmed in Willow Grove. @6abc#Ida
PSA If you're about to award your government IT contract to a company that calls their BizDev staff "Capture Managers", you're going to be disappointed for the next couple years/decades with them.
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Its really quite hard to explain to someone who uses Teams internally all day with ease just how difficult it can be for an external person, with 8 different Teams logins, to "quickly jump on a call" with them.
It can take me up to an hour to just log in.