FEMA Taps Private Vendors to Meet Sandy Victim's Needs - No Water Until Monday

FEMA Taps Private Vendors to Meet Sandy Victim's Needs - No Water
Until Monday

by Michael Patrick Leahy
3 Nov 2012
drudgereport.com

FEMA's vaunted "lean forward" strategy that called for advanced
staging of supplies for emergency distribution failed to live up to
its billing in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

In fact, the agency appears to have been completely unprepared to
distribute bottled water to Hurricane Sandy victims when the storm hit
this Monday. In contrast to its stated policy, FEMA failed to have any
meaningful supplies of bottled water -- or any other supplies, for
that matter -- stored in nearby facilities as it had proclaimed it
would on its website. This was the case despite several days advance
warning of the impending storm.

FEMA only began to solicit bids for vendors to provide bottled water
for distribution to Hurricane Sandy victims on Friday, sending out a
solicitation request for 2.3 million gallons of bottled water at the
FedBizOpps.gov website. Bidding closed at 4:30 pm eastern.

Breitbart News spoke with contracting officer Annette Wright, who said
that the winning vendor would be required to deliver the 2.3 million
gallons of bottled water to an East Farmingdale, New York distribution
center that was listed in the solicitation request by Monday, November
5th. Ms. Wright was unable to say when or how the water would be
delivered from the distribution center to needy Hurricane Sandy
victims in New Jersey, Staten Island, Long Island, and other boroughs
of New York City. Vendors "are currently being evaluated," she said,
and when the vendors are announced, they will provide information on
how local distribution will occur.

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