March 31, 2004
Bureaucracy
We here in the Nation's Capital know and love the big red-tape filled corridors of governance. And every encounter with the DC government is a Long Story.
Today, I encountered a really fantastic example of federal B.S. My company is submitting a proposal, for a three-tiered research project. For this proposal, we must submit cost sheets, technical information, CVs, and experience blurbs. Cost sheets and technicals must be separate for each of the three tiers, but while the rest is the same, those bits also must be attached to each of the three sub-sets. All this has to be duplicated 18 times, bound, each copy with a proposal-evaluator-specific cover letter, and delivered by courier (no, not by mail, not by FedEx, not by one of us....a Federally Approved courier) to the agency by 9am on a certain Monday in April.
Incidentally, things seem to be the same in other places too: my friend Sarah recently ranted about Japanese governmental bureaucracy.
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Those of us over here at XXX, Inc. get to deal with that sort of nonsense every single day (weekends, too!). Ain't proposals fun?
Posted by: MG at March 31, 2004 2:22 PM
yes, no pity from me, since i also write proposals every day at XXX, Inc.
welcome to our world, michael. if only briefly.
Posted by: nm at March 31, 2004 2:27 PM
Oh, I'll be in said world a long time. And summer is proposal season. Luckily, however, most of the grants we do here at YYY Inc. aren't federal. Which makes them, I'm told, not so bad.
Posted by: maw at March 31, 2004 4:56 PM
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