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So to give people some additional context on why this is a nightmare. Currently in contracting we have something called the Micro purchase threshold, which is $10k for supplies or $2500 for services. This is what the government was allowed to buy on a government purchase credit card with minimum paperwork (it's regularly audited but doesn't need to go through the whole contracting process, which is a lengthy process). Removing the credit cards has meant buying something like office supplies is no longer a quick Amazon buy, it is now something that will take over a month as they fill out tons of documents and some poor contract Specialist and contracting officer will have to go through all the contracting steps. This is aggressively inefficient and expensive. It is by far the dumbest thing this jack ass has done. ~source me, a poor contract Specialist who now has to do an unholy amount of micro purchases.
In the article they say:
With inflation that would now be something like $2.1 billion. So the whole thing is costing money.
Yeah, that is because Musk is an idiot and p-cards actually help give more transparency (better reporting) and helps ensure alignment to budgets, approved spending limits, approved vendors, etc. So, like the total opposite of a typical credit card. lol
Considering that Musk doesn’t seem to know much beyond the surface layer of anything, I doubt he even knows the differences between a p-card and a regular credit card, and how they actually help control (ensuring alignment to right budget line items, approved spending limits, etc.) and report on spending. Dumb ass.
The only thing Musk seems to know well is he has a dick and it makes babies.
Nothing else is as important as that.
Edit ... they may be all IVF but he still needs a dick to get sperm into the jar.
Actually, his allegedly mangled dick might not make babies. supposedly, they are all IVF or surrogate.
Pretty sure they're all in vitro
He had a botched dick surgery from a"doctor"
Yeah, I came in to say exactly this. The typical contracting process usually involves reaching out to multiple vendors, (usually a minimum of three, including at least one Historically Underutilized Business), soliciting quotes from all of them, waiting for quotes to come back, deciding on the best quote (and being able to justify it if you didn’t pick the cheapest one), and then going through the entire invoicing process with the selected vendor.
With a p-card, you can just walk into the local office supply store, swipe your p-card, and be done with it. Or better yet, just order it online using the account that the contractor has already set up via the aforementioned bidding process, and have it delivered in a day. But needing to go through the entire contractor process for every single purchase will quickly cripple any office.
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Have worked in civil service and dealt with the procurement process in the past. You are 100% correct.
There is going to be a whole mess of UCC ratifications from all this. I would hate to be a CO right now dealing with all that paperwork.