Yes look at your logic. Lets the feds pay $150 for a toilet seart rather than let a private company make a profit by only charging $75. You complain that you can buy it for $25 at Home Cheapo so it s a rip off. But you don't have to carry staff, have 20 people to pass around paperwork to meet contract regs and all the other BS that goes with running a business. Liberal logic at it's finest. Lets take a few notable no bid contracts. The last was FEMA for trailers. What never makes KIRO.com is the fact that the trailer manufactures agree a head of time to carry excess inventory for potential FEMA use. They also meet Fed guidlines for being able to ramp up production at the drop of a hat. PACAR locally has such contracts in place so does Boeing. So why should a bunch of bidder be included that do not or will not take part in these requirements? Halliburton. Name on company that could do what they are doing in the time frame they did it? SAIC could not even come close to that scale in that time frame.