Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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OBO, as I just learned today with your discussion
about the contractors, I'm not sure who handles all
that, but there are the vendor selection issues that
the chemical industry faces. And what they found
was this process or the vendor selection process
held up a lot of the design process. So, a lot of
drawings were being held up because the vendors
weren't being, you know, the process was long and
tedious.
Next slide. The other issue or the other
main topic or area was the prepackaged issues and it
kind of overlaps. And there was some of the main
issue was insufficient packaged unit vendor
engineering staff. What we found in a trend is many
of these firms are downsizing or in the past. I'm
not sure if it's -- this was a study that was done
several years now, but it may have changed now or
turned around, but a lot of people are going lean.
They're trying to streamline their operations and so
you get a lot of firms when they sell prepackaged
products, it's prepackaged and they don't have the
staff to maybe customize a product that they have
and so that becomes a big issue on the owner's side
to coordinate those.
As technology improves, you've more complex
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