look at the BAE systems no-bid and sole source contracts

[w8liftinglady]

BAE systems=Carlyle Group
this from DoD contract awards-more available at http://www.defenselink.mil/srch/search?q=BAE+systems&c=A3B245203F9EBEC5FC8C306E4AAF152F&c=8268333F54379065&c=6FDF5BD0BF338D19&c=1DA2190B5E9F39D2&template=%2Fsearch%2Fresults-template-dl.html&sort=-pub_date&v=(contracts<in>subcategory)&pg=3
" BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration, Inc., Nashua, N.H., is being awarded a $13,009,326 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a cost-plus-award-fee pricing arrangement for an upgrade to the AN/WQT-2 (Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS)/Low Frequency Active (LFA) Transmit Subsystem) currently installed on the USNS Impeccable and the RV Cory Chouest. Work will be performed in Nashua, N.H., and is expected to be completed by December 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is a sole-source follow-on award to upgrade an existing Navy system. The solicitation for this contract was a synopsis notice published on the SPAWAR e-Commerce Central web site as a sole-source contract. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center , San Diego , Calif. , is the contracting activity (N66001-06-D-0037).
http://www.defenselink.mil/contracts/2005/ct20051229-12239.html

go to the link to see more(too many pages)

[tx_dem41]

1. Major distinction...it's a sole-source FOLLOW-ON award. n/t

[w8liftinglady]

2. I know-but one of multiple sole-source and no bid awards.

[tx_dem41]

3. I've been involved in sole-source FOLLOW-ON contracts awards..

from DOD. It isn't necessarily underhanded. In fact, it usually makes sense.

[acmejack]

4. They have been the prime on the whale killer for a while now.

Thats right, the WQT-2 Low Frequency Transmit Array is what is killing them. Not a conspiracy theory, plain hard truth.