So. Who thinks that the UAE corp had the low bid for port mgment?

[Inland]

The repug dude on hardball was saying that the Bushies would come to a compromise of letting that corp run the ports with more security watching it, which made me wonder if then the costs would make the deal uneconomical, which made me wonder

Is the admin resisting this, avoiding the legal process for awarding the job, because they sent it to a company that was not the lowest bidder? After all, if they really wanted to hand out the goodies as a reward for UAE help with something else, it wouldn't be with a market rate contract.

[rpannier]

1. Probably for the American government they had the low-bid

for scrub's pocketbook, cheney's bank account and the accounts of their friends it was the high bid.

[Lindsay]

2. As I understand it, DP World is buying the company that had

been running the ports. No bidding involved as far as the government is concerned.

[Roland99]

4. I wonder how many WH officials were meeting with P&O recently?

[spindrifter]

3. Low bid is not even a consideration

if all DP World was doing was getting cleared to take over P & O's existing contracts.

Oops-- I see Lindsay already saw this.