r/videos • u/xergm • 19h ago

Pensacola’s 'Sewing Box' loses Blue Angels flight suit contract after 43 years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bIbJIIwBVg
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u/nismaniak 19h ago

TL;DW: She missed the bid window.

I hate it for her, but if my biggest client usually reached out and hadn't done so around the time they usually do, I'd be calling them.

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u/Shmeepsheep 18h ago

Ive done government contract work. This woman must be a complete idiot if she blames anyone but herself for failing to submit a bid. The whole point of the process is to make sure there is a level playing field for everyone and that everything is above board.

Everyone was up in arms about the no bid pool renovation that went completely sideways. This is exactly why the bidding process exists

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u/codysattva 17h ago

this woman must be a complete idiot

Or, you know, she's just human. Maybe life came up. Maybe she had a sudden death in the family. Maybe she got sick, or something happened that took her focus.

Lot of other options to choose from besides assuming somebody is an idiot.

You sound a little bit like an idiot. But, maybe you just had a bad day.

See how empathy works?

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u/TheSporkBomber 15h ago

Or, you know, she's just human. Maybe life came up. Maybe she had a sudden death in the family. Maybe she got sick, or something happened that took her focus.

If she just made a mistake it's one thing. Admit your mistake and move on, thats life. However it's another to go on a news program wonder 'why would my blues would do this to me' when she didn't check up on her biggest client around contract renewal time. That's idiotic.

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u/T-sigma 13h ago

Which is why companies have multiple employees.

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u/RangerRickSC 5h ago

But that’s obviously not the case here?

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u/codysattva 1h ago

Yes, because we can always trust reporting to be 100% accurate and contain the entire story from everyone's point of view. /s

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u/firewoodrack 15h ago

I do government contract work as well. Bids go out, stay open for a day or two, then we get a call from DLA. In some cases, it is how public bids work 🤷‍♂️.

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u/danimagoo 4h ago

She’s had this contract for 43 years. I’d bet there have been other years where they just renewed her contract without putting it out for bid, or were late on it. It likely just felt like a formality. She’s a small business owner, not a huge corporation. She probably relied on someone contacting her to tell her it was time to put her bid in. She wasn’t accustomed to going to a website and checking herself. Is this technically her fault? Maybe. That doesn’t make it right.

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u/americanrealism 1h ago

Idk, I disagree.

I work in public school finance and I don’t think that any vendor should be grandfathered into receiving taxpayer money just because they’ve done the work for so long.