Originally Posted by
Dan Lehr
That might be true for federal agencies, and some of the larger metro agencies, but most 'state' contracts are either from distributors or direct from smaller manufacturers. It really used to irk me when so and so got the state bid for our shotgun ammo and the ammo was drop shipped from Federal, never having seen so and so's warehouse.
Currently, one of the problems with state and department contracts is that currently manufacturers are loathe to commit to a realistic price for a year due to increased price of components and raw materials.
One manufacturer I know of increased prices for LE at the first of the year thinking they would get through the first half of the year before they would have to do another increase. That didn't work out, and they had another increase a couple days ago.