False Claim of Production Source. A major company was unsucc…
False Claim of Production Source. A major company was unsuccessful in bidding on a complex gyroscopic control system for a military aircraft. Using strong political connections with the White House, they forced a Pentagon level review of the evaluation. The proposal claimed all portions of the system were produced in company facilities. On a visit to one of the qualified suppliers of Rate Switching Gyros, Air Force personnel had witnessed production of units with name plates of the major supplier. The qualified supplier was a very small company. Is it ethical for a company to subcontract equipment and then claim in a proposal that it is produced in house? Where is the line drawn between a typical purchased subassembly which goes into a larger product?
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