Yesterday, the National Gallery of Art put out a solicitation for nuclear ordnance, giving interested parties until the end of October to respond to the solicitation notice.
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The office seeking the weapons is the National Gallery of Art's Office of Procurement and Contracts, located in a nondescript warehouse in Landover, Maryland -- an area known as a government storage boneyard.
No specifications on the type of ordnance were specified in the solicitation. It's presumed as part of the so-called "New START" treaty, they'll take anything. It's unclear if NGA will accept Russian ordnance, but even if they did, Russian contractors would be at a severe disadvantage not knowing our labyrinth of contracting laws.
Since the president's 2009 Recovery Act law is largely tapped out, the solicitation was clear: no stimulus money can be used in this project.
The point of contact for NGA is listed as:
David Reindl Here in Washington DC of course
Don't worry. According to the FedBizOpps.gov website, this was only a test solicitation.
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