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GalegoBaiano

What do you do if they want you to award a contract you don’t agree with?

Either contract type or subject matter, take your pick. But seriously, let’s say you have a contract package come through that’s for something you find ethically/morally reprehensible. What would you do, given the current environment?

Do you grumble about and award a $200M no-bid contract for Ferraris? Or do you refuse to work on the next-gen Preschool Bomb 4000, and get fired? Or do you agree that the contract that’s in year 2 of 5 for warehouse space could be within scope to alter it so it’s half detainees and half mustard gas and just award it while screaming internally?

I know these are all extremes, but I am having a very hard time going along with a contract scope change, and it’s hot on the heels of a new award that I don’t think is something that the US should be doing at all.

Posted Mar 6, 2026, 3:47 PM UTC

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