Could somebody please come shoot me in the head?

[XJ Dreamin']

I'm trapped for the entire week in "Contracting Officer's Technical Representative" training. We spent Tuesday trying to develop a scope and proposal for bids to out-source grounds maintenance for the White House!!!

This is no joke!! I can't take another day of this and I'm commited through Friday!!!

Please, just come over here and shoot me in the head. PM me for directions.

[MogifiedXJ]

Try dealing with the DOE, CCNS, INSC, DNS, NRC, NEI, and whoever else want to stick thier nose in things and then come talk to me.

[CanMan]

Read my user name, Ill take care of your misery. http://smiley.onegreatguy.net/sniper.gif

:D:D

[XJ Dreamin']

Try dealing with the DOE, CCNS, INSC, DNS, NRC, NEI, and whoever else want to stick thier nose in things and then come talk to me.

Let's see:
Department of Energy
Canadian Congress of Neurological Sciences
International Nuclear Societies Council
Domain Name Service
National Recycling Coalition
National Eye Institute

How do all those get into your business at the same time? :laugh2:

[rckclmbr]

your name is kinda funny. the guy that owned the jeep before me had the license plate 10 GAUGE

[XJ Dreamin']

Read my user name, Ill take care of your misery. http://smiley.onegreatguy.net/sniper.gif

:D:D

So you haven't PM'ed me yet. Let's get this done before I have to wake up to another day of this drivel.

[johnlv6]

That sounds like how i feel every day when i leave work.

[CanMan]

So you haven't PM'ed me yet. Let's get this done before I have to wake up to another day of this drivel.

Na, too far away. Im sure you can find some cowboy down there to do it for you. :D

[97XJ_Sport]

I'm about 3 hrs. away, I could be down there kill you, and be back before breakfast.

[8Mud]

I guess there is a good reason every contracting officer I've even know is an alcoholic.
I worked for the government for most of my adult life. I always managed to get the job done, dispite all of managements oxymoron attempts at coordination, support, goals or priorities.
I once spent an afternoon reading E-mails between managers, about who's fault it was, that the toilets weren't flushing. Them blaiming the problem on procurement, then the GSO, then the local hires, the contractors that did a recent renovation, then the department heads and even the secretaries. Then trying to decide who gets the contract to repair them and who's budget was going to pay for what.
The whole thing was actually my fault, I reset the circuit breaker for the IR flushers (the same morning they malfed) and forgot to sign off on the work order (that I got four days later). By the time they decided wether it went to the electrical depatement or the plumbing departement, we could have been in a world of chit. You'd think sooner or later somebody in management would actually get up from behind there computer and use a toilet, no wonder they are so full of it. Most of there new hires are for more people to read there E-mails, not for tradesman that actually do anything.
A government procurement officer is one of the hardest jobs on the planet. Your pecker is constantly on the chopping block. You have to take the bribes and kickbacks or nobody trusts you (your vulnerable as heck). The associated managers are always trying (to stab you in the back) to blame there screw ups on you. The oversite is like having a rectal exam.
The contract paperwork is largely BS anyway. Most all of the contracts are copies of old contracts with the specifics changed to fit, that have made it through years of scrutiny (nobody has ever managed to desifer or understand them yet).
I feel for you Bro.

[Ramsey]

I know a guy, see avatar :D

[Dirt]

I know a guy, see avatar :D


I think he's already scheduled for Gee haad (sorry SP?)

[Ramsey]

I have an uncle named Jihad

[johnlv6]

I know a guy, see avatar :D

Before they named the war in iraq Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), the going joke was that it would be called Operation Iraqi Liberation...or OIL :D.

[Ramsey]

Before they named the war in iraq Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), the going joke was that it would be called Operation Iraqi Liberation...or OIL :D.
Thats pretty fawking funny.

[Jeff in VA]

Don't you just LOVE governmental procurement procedures????

(that's what I do for the wonderful Commonwealth of VA:gonnablow )

I'll come on up and drop one of the manuals I have in my office on your head when you aren't looking.....that should take care of ya!

Jeff

[XJ Dreamin']

I'm about 3 hrs. away, I could be down there kill you, and be back before breakfast.

Dude, you didn't PM. Now here I am at midnight after a third day of this crap and I can't sleep 'cause I know when I wake up I have to do it all over again!!!

[8Mud]

Drop the manual on your foot, make a trip to the emergency room and and dream up a good war story about how you were wounded in action. If your carefull about how you do it, you may even get a Purple Heart.

[XJ Dreamin']

Don't you just LOVE governmental procurement procedures????

(that's what I do for the wonderful Commonwealth of VA:gonnablow )

I'll come on up and drop one of the manuals I have in my office on your head when you aren't looking.....that should take care of ya!

Jeff

450 frickin' pages of specs!! I chit you not. That was a recent example the instructor had. That's not counting the FAR clauses also attached.

Your offer is :bs: though. You'd have to contract a MegaMover to get that document down here. That's at least 45 to 60 days after you release the RFP and it'll turn into six months when the looser protests. The low-ball winner will end up defaulting and you'll have to wait for Loyds to decide whether to pay the bond or hire another mover. There's no way you can get that document here tonight.