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Repurposing a comment I made when this was first reported:
This is from a procurement forecast. The department is listing all the things they might be interested in so that a small business/vendor has an opportunity to try to sell the government something. AKA this is the government's way of doing window shopping.
If you look up the attributed code DS/C/DEAV, DS stands for "Bureau of Diplomatic Security" and DEAV stands for "Defensive Equipment and Armored Vehicles Division". So these are armored cars for diplomats security details.
The same person put in the following orders:
- Armored Tesla (Production Units)
- ARMORED SEDAN
- ARMORED BMW X5/X7
- ARMORED EV (NOT SEDAN)
- R&D
The NAICS codes are wrong, and the cost numbers were clearly pulled out of thin air. Luckily, the Acquisition stage was only "PLANNING".
All this information is publicly available https://www.state.gov/procurement-forecast