CAF Procurement

[Kirkhill]

March Madness is well known to the government supply community.

It occurs when there is more money but no more year.

At that point vendors dump inventory on excited government employees that want to:

A protect next year's budget by ensuring that they spend all of this years

B buy toys.

...

Fly in the ointment this year.
Ukraine and Russia have eaten up a lot of everybody's inventory.

Unless we want to buy some old stock from Uncle Sam.

Pretty sure we could buy a bunch of factory Dodge Rams.

 

[Czech_pivo]

March Madness is well known to the government supply community.

It occurs when there is more money but no more year.

At that point vendors dump inventory on excited government employees that want to:

A protect next year's budget by ensuring that they spend all of this years

B buy toys.

...

Fly in the ointment this year.
Ukraine and Russia have eaten up a lot of everybody's inventory.

Unless we want to buy some old stock from Uncle Sam.

Pretty sure we could buy a bunch of factory Dodge Rams.

Shame that all the dumps in Albania have long been emptied.
I know a way to save on shipping small arm rounds.

 

[DBNSG]

I truly wonder why the Government doesn't just scales up the choices that have already been made.
Confirm the two extra P-8'S. In for 14 already so....
Spikes, Carl G's, and RBS-70's in Army wide quantity. Not an American in the bunch.
Go ahead , finally, with General Eyre's ammunition plan
PARTS, PARTS, PARTS.
Send the Navistars to Ukraine and replicate the Mack fleet.
Top up the ERC buy and get another 35 to complete the fleet
Talk to the Swiss about buying some of their stored Leo's and really really promise to send them to Alberta
If the Yanks really divest the 30 MM Dragoon Strykers then bring them home
MORE ACSV's.
Let every Artillery and Infantry Battalion buy some drones , lots of drones and get playing. Organic experimentation

 

[McG]

I truly wonder why the Government doesn't just scales up the choices that have already been made.

If there is no option space in existing contracts, then the bureaucracy does not have a mechanism to “scale up”

If government wants to spend faster, it needs to reduce process and it needs a culture that accepts directed purchases (particularly in the case of buying more of fleets we already have).

But, at this stage in the FY, industry will have a hard time delivering major end items. Nobody is selling used tanks anymore. If we want more tanks, we need to plan to buy new.

 

[DBNSG]

If there is no option space in existing contracts, then the bureaucracy does not have a mechanism to “scale up”

If government wants to spend faster, it needs to reduce process and it needs a culture that accepts directed purchases (particularly in the case of buying more of fleets we already have).

But, at this stage in the FY, industry will have a hard time delivering major end items. Nobody is selling used tanks anymore. If we want more tanks, we need to plan to buy new.

So I imagine a PM could rewrite what ever contract he wants to. Carny should work some DND Friday's and just get stuff done.

 

[Furniture]

So I imagine a PM could rewrite what ever contract he wants to. Carny should work some DND Friday's and just get stuff done.

Except, there is little political will to do that.

There is an obvious need to get more serious about defence, but burning that sort of political capital on defence is beyond reasonable at this stage. Let's not forget the LPC is a minority government, and any major swing in opinion could see the opposition parties work to bring them down.

If PMMC is serious about defence spending, lets see him bring the system around the "right" way, not the expedient way.

 

[Kirkhill]

Except, there is little political will to do that.

There is an obvious need to get more serious about defence, but burning that sort of political capital on defence is beyond reasonable at this stage. Let's not forget the LPC is a minority government, and any major swing in opinion could see the opposition parties work to bring them down.

If PMMC is serious about defence spending, lets see him bring the system around the "right" way, not the expedient way.

I think he needs to do both things concurrently. He doesn't have the time to rewrite the rule book first. Nobody trusts Canada.

We have to be seen to be acting now to regain some of that trust.