Pro Se Harry

First, I am a contractor and do not work for the government. Second, I would not characterize the apparent successful offeror's bid as a "Low Ball" bid but rather a "No Ball" bid. What I mean by this is the successful offeror apparently pulled a bid out of the air, has no idea what he bid on, has contacted me, the manufacturer of the commodity in question with a line drawing and asked for a price on the drawing "or equivalent". Never mind that the item in question is a critical supply item and the government drawing calls for the part to be manufactured according to the drawing without exception! Furthermore the tooling costs alone cost far more then the bid price! So the government is either going to get a non-conforming product or the successful offeror is gong to realize that there is no way to supply the part for the bid price and get out of the contract...only to have the government have to put the part for bid again and have someone else who is "clueless" as to what they are bidding on win the contract!