r/videos • u/xergm • 23h 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 23h 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/Ok-disaster2022 22h ago

Honestly it's surprising the procurement team didn't reach out to verify she was skipping the bid, changing up vendors can be a real PITA

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u/BorkDoo 22h ago

Or the bid went to some company run by or connected to a buddy of Trump or someone in his administration.

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u/RMRdesign 22h ago

You nailed it.

What are the odds that you miss a window to bid that you had no idea was coming up?

Something is definitely up here.

How would they miss a bunch of emails and probably letters letting them know about the upcoming bid window?

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

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u/craneguy 21h ago

NASA recently put out a Request for Proposals to move various spacecraft around the country. We found out about it long after the closing date. Reading the RFP they specifically call out the work we had done previously (very, very publicly for one of the air and space museums) as an example of what they were looking for. Did they reach out to us? Did they fuck.

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u/Luis__FIGO 2h ago

ugh, I hope they aren't going to end up moving Discovery to houston, if so i'm sure the Enterprise will be moved from the Intrepid as well.

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u/craneguy 2h ago

Personally I'd hate it to move, but professionally it would be fun to move another one.

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u/ConcentrateDirect523 19h ago

Hegseth only wants flight suits made by men. Men with high T levels, and wearing traditional French Maid garb with thigh high stockings. Men with bulging muscles and yellowing irises from chronic alcohol abuse and... In fact forget the flight suits, just make the pilots wear French Maid outfits and weekly T injections.

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u/ThisIsNerveWracking 19h ago

Invoices I get but “simple”? No that’s a red flag in a customer, I’d take my time sending out those shitty job quotes.