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On the recordJune 18, 2004
may I ask the gentleman, he was a counsel to a contractor at one point in his life. Can he imagine how we would ever rebid this to either of the other two bidders now that they know all of the specifications that the government was looking for?
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James Moran
Virginia

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Questioning the fairness of rebidding contracts after specifications have been disclosed.

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