Seybold: Many FirstNet contractors being selected by DOC/NTIA, not FirstNet management
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Seybold: Many FirstNet contractors being selected by DOC/NTIA, not FirstNet management
Last August—just three months after joining FirstNet—General Manager Bill D’Agostino acknowledged that some uncertainty surrounding FirstNet’s “independent entity” designation existed at the time.
“I think there’s still things to understand and define a little bit better, but I’m comfortable where we are right now, given the limited amount of time we’ve had to begin to study these things,” D’Agostino said during an August 2013 interview with IWCE’s Urgent Communications. “As we continue to study them, I think and hope that we will find some opportunities that will allow us to do things in a little more flexible fashion.”
Hiring procedures topped the list of reasons why clarity in this area is important, D’Agostino said during the August 2013 interview.
“First and foremost, I’d try to find a way to accelerate the hiring and onboarding process—not necessarily to cut out any of the steps, but just find a way to accelerate the ability to attract the pool of people and then the ability to move that pool of people through in a much more expeditious fashion than we do today,” D’Agostino said in August 2013.
“It seems like you’re looking at 4-6 months before you have somebody on board. I’d rather see that be more like 4-6 weeks.”
Friends and family plan?
Friends and family plan?
Seems we have the makings of
Seems we have the makings of yet another fiasco regarding government contracting, involving clueless bureaucrats and greedy would-be contractors. There is nothing like the smell of money to generate this kind of stuff. Any kind of unified, consistent, ubiquitous and reliable national emergency communications infrastructure will probably NEVER happen, although zillions of dollars of public money will be spent to line the pockets of lobbyists, “consultants” and politicians before the public can even expect any results or benefits.
Another American tragedy.
Did it ever occur to you that
Did it ever occur to you that the work has been bid out to new contractors because of the astounding lack of accomplishments by the incumbent personnel? This sounds a lot more like sour grapes than the truth.
Oh, and how much is a zillion, btw?
Since Firstnet is exempt from
Since Firstnet is exempt from the FOIA does this mean we do not even get the opportunity to know what the contents of the two competitive solicitations were or who the three firms were that they were directed to or how the evaluations were done?