[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Bob Koehler]

In article <7o9seoF3palpdU1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> In article <IweRJQ32IoED at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
> 	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>> In article <7o7aptF3osjr8U2 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>>> 
>>> Auditor would have had a field day with that one.  Contract should have
>>> been re-competed as the two are hardly equivalent and there actuall is
>>> no such thing as a PDP-VAX.  I can't believe there wasn't a protest filed.
>> 
>>    Cost of the 8 11/70 vs. cost of the 8 11/780 was a tiny part of the
>>    contract.  I don't know if they created justification for a protest,
>>    but when I came on the job I was sure glad to be using VAXen.
> 
> having worked on both sides of the contracting issue, I can assure you
> cost has nothing to do with it.  If the contract was awarded and any
> changes were made in the deliverables the by the winner of the contract
> after award it would be grounds for a protest.

   I suspect the change was made "just in time" before the contract
   award.