You'd think they'd atleast begin by only openning the auction to other gov. agencies so procurement budgets could be strecthed, but no.
They did.
If it is on Govliquidation.com than it has gone through a three tier process. It is first left out to be sold to the branch of the government that it came from. Then it moves onto all government agency's (everything from the military to the Department of Natural resources) and finally it is sold to the general public.
"That property is first offered for reutilization within the Department of Defense (DoD), transfer to other federal agencies, or donation to state and local governments and other qualified organizations. Reutilization means big savings. In fiscal 2008, $2.2 billion worth of property was reutilized. Every dollar's worth of property reutilized is a tax dollar saved. DLA Disposition Services also supports disaster relief at home, and humanitarian assistance and foreign military sales programs."
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If it is not purchased by the general public it will go back through the process again.
I have bought from GovLiquidation before, after your sale is processed (by the civilian company who runs Govliquidation.com) you will be told to contact the local warehouse that holds the item and then you will work with the government. I myself worked with DRMO at Ft. Lewis. If you go and look around the warehouse at Ft. Lewis you will find that 2/3rd of the VERY big warehouse is not available to the public to even look at. It sits for months waiting for different agencies to consider buying it, but they rarely do.
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