canadian no sleep sleeping bags

MORE FOLLOW UP OF CANADIAN SLEEPING BAG SCANDAL

As you may recall the dollar amount spent on the sleeping bags was $34,000,000.00.

The current solicitation calls for a three-part system, two sleeping bags that fit together and a bivi bag. The prior solicitation called as far as I can tell from the report was a single sleeping bag.

My sleep system of the Antarctic bag, FTRSS over bag and bivi bag at full retail is $620.00. If I convert that amount to Canadian dollars, I get $855.60.

Here is where I have the biggest problem. If I divide $855.60 into $34,000,000.00, I get 39738 systems.

If I divide $400.00 Canadian the cost of one sleeping bag that proved not to work into $34,000,000.00, I get 85000 bags.

Does the Canadian military have that many soldiers in all military divisions combined? I personally do not think so.

How many factories are necessary to produce that many bags in two years. Without going to China but staying in the USA and Canada there are only a total of 2 or 3. And I do not believe they could do it.

I wonder since I suspect I will never know what the price was for each bag and how many were delivered?

Years ago, when the department of public works solicited me to bid on sleeping bags it was for 10,000. Is it possible they paid $34,000,000.00 for 10,000 bags?

Did the original reporter somehow inflate the numbers to make the story more extreme. If all that was reported is accurate, I hope for the sake of the Canadian public ultimately gets the truth. The only truth they have at this time is that $34,000,000.00 was spent for sleeping bags to use in the arctic that did not work for that purpose.