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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ArsTechnica.com reports that NASA plans to competitively rebid the JPL FFRDC contract in 2028, and is encouraging places other than CalTech to bid.
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Seems pretty stupid. [/quote]

why? more competition is good. For stuff that other contractors could do, why we need to pick FFRDCs? everything is outdated over there and they just care about writing reports and a billing account. They have no incentive to find a solution for DoD[/quote]

As opposed to who, exactly? Deloitte? Palantir? I've got all the complaints with FFRDCs there are to have, but DoD does this to itself with how it contracts, and it's sure not getting better.[/quote]

whoever it could be and they need to bid lower. Most of the FFRDCs work on several contracts and we should not accept their style of just writing reports and be done with it. That style is very old. [/quote]

That's what DoD is buying. It's not like DoD said "give us a product or give us a report" and the FFRDC said "hmm, I guess we choose report." [/quote]

Did DoD ask for op-eds and other comment pieces?

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You design the incentive system here and then you complain about what it gets you. You don't like what you're getting, design a better incentive system. If you can't name a vendor who is doing the version of what you want under similar contracting rules, the issue is not the vendor, it's you. [/quote]

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