Re:The U.S. tried to build a new fleet of ventilators
by maxerickson on Sunday March 29, 2020 @03:46PM
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Sure.
If I had a government slush fund to develop a low cost ventilator, I would try to structure the payments in the contract to be based on milestones with concrete deliverables. Not a tenuous agreement to buy a bunch of ventilators at below market price (it's implied in the article that the sales to the stockpile wouldn't justify the project for the company).
There's of course a possibility that the government wrote the most aggressive contract they could find someone to work on. But I doubt that is what happened.
Re:The U.S. tried to build a new fleet of ventilators
by pdonis on Sunday March 29, 2020 @03:50PM
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> There's of course a possibility that the government wrote the most aggressive contract they could find someone to work on. But I doubt that is what happened.
If I had a government slush fund to develop a low cost ventilator, I would try to structure the payments in the contract to be based on milestones with concrete deliverables. Not a tenuous agreement to buy a bunch of ventilators at below market price (it's implied in the article that the sales to the stockpile wouldn't justify the project for the company).
There's of course a possibility that the government wrote the most aggressive contract they could find someone to work on. But I doubt that is what happened.