US Gov auctions are great when you want 400 of something broken or want to travel through 3 states for a $1000 mil-spec kitchen sink.
Govdeals managed services (or whatever they call it now) is just as questionable as 3rd party sellers on any given big bog store's ecommerce "platform".
I didn't realize the government could become Amazon.
The worst ones will try to add a few extra holes the night before the auction
By the way I had to spend at least a second trying to figure out whether that antifreeze was somehow going to offgas and damage the vehicle undercarriage :)
But it’s just straightforward dishonest fake leak. Scoundrels!
Hawaii's one is at https://auctions.ehawaii.gov/dot/welcome.html. I had a boss when I lived in Hawaii that would bid on them, occasionally brought boxes of the random "sharps" (as they were called at the time) that had been confiscated from people by TSA. Some of it is somewhat surprising that people still had on them when they got to TSA, like high quality 18" long machetes.
Then as things got worse, these days its screwdrivers, wrenches etc.
Seems like soon even my ethernet cables are going to be taken from me.
Mil-spec transport containers? Excellent.
Mil-spec rucksacks? Not so excellent.
The lowest bider thing is such a lame meme. Vendors are going to design a product to cost as little as possible to meet spec. Most consumer products have little to no required specs so they can make it even cheaper. However, since milspec products often just have one spec they are designed to, you have a limited selection of quality. No one is making milspec birkin bags. But in the consumer space, you can buy anything between Temu and high-end designer quality.