Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.xs3.de!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!maths.tcd.ie!usenet.csail.mit.edu!.POSTED.hergotha.csail.mit.edu!not-for-mail From: wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: The insane progress nobody is talking about Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 16:20:07 -0000 (UTC) Organization: MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 16:20:07 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: usenet.csail.mit.edu; posting-host="hergotha.csail.mit.edu:207.180.169.34"; logging-data="96296"; mail-complaints-to="security@csail.mit.edu" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Lines: 23 Bytes: 2174 In article , Paul S Person wrote: >Perhaps a thorough audit focused on where the money is going (ie, how >many brothers-in-law of various officials are getting the contracts) >would help. There are only two or three contractors bidding on most capital projects, because they are so high-value and simultaneously both over- and under-specified, such that only the largest contractors can perform them. If anyone's brother-in-law is getting the business, it would be a sub-sub-contractor, not the prime. (There's a weird thing in state procurement law that requires the prime contractor to sub out lots of business from a list of qualified subs provided by the state, so that's not as implausible as it sounds.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | "Act to avoid constraining the future; if you can, wollman@bimajority.org| act to remove constraint from the future. This is Opinions not shared by| a thing you can do, are able to do, to do together." my employers. | - Graydon Saunders, _A Succession of Bad Days_ (2015)