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The anticipated value is $16,500,000 over the life of the contract which shall be one base year plus 4 option years
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Do you have anything to say they arent? Can you tell me what the other $6400 consisted of?
Lol... what other $6400? The price is $16.5M for at least 2500 in the first year, everything included.
Just read the d--- document. accept you're wrong and move on. You can keep your gov't waste spiel for another venture, but in this instance, just admit that the gov't didn't negotiate anything near as chitty as the thread starter insinuated.
Read your own link. The potential additional costs in the contract is:
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The use of Dispatch agencies may be required. In that event, the Department of State will provide separate funding to the Dispatch agencies for freight forwarding costs, and the order shall include only the Contractor's costs from origin to the Dispatch agency
5-year no-bid contract with Amazon that could include as many as 35,000 Kindle e-Readers and content,
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The price per unit is currently being worked out. It is expected to be in the ballpark of a recent pilot program where State purchased 6,000 Kindles for $980,000 for educational and e-diplomacy purposes, which works out roughly to a cost of $163 for each device.
7. The Contractor shall provide a dedicated 24/7 help desk to support inquires from the Department of State and its partners in countries specified in Attachment A.
11. The Contractor shall provide support in the installation and use of user surveys, whether they are proprietary or third party. The Contractor will advise on the appropriate format and timing of surveys. The format for reporting will be developed with and approved by the Department of State but will include reporting by country and e-reader serial number.
12. In order to provide timely and comprehensive data on the e-reader program and accommodate new programming, the Contractor shall ensure that there is sufficient staff support to develop any surveys to be used on the e-reader, respond to data requests on shipping, Kindle registration, loss and breakage reporting and the purchase and download of content.
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[SIZE=3]Where does the RFP say thousands of others will be included at no additional cost?[/SIZE]
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