Yuggibeht, I'm going to hold you to a higher stand
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What you said initially is that SAIC wouldn't rely on assumptions fed to them by PTOI because SAIC is too professional. I think you're way out in left field, both based on my experience and on what would seem ludicrous otherwise.
Are you telling me that if Coca Cola did about a million dollars worth of market research and determined they could sell $100M worth of a new product annually...and then hired SAIC to determine the return on investment of the capital needed to manufacture the product...that SAIC would say, "Hold on there, Coca Cola, we need to verify all of your revenue assumptions which will require duplicating the market research which you've already spent nearly a million dollars to complete...so we're going to do a good job and charge you an extra million dollars for the verification which you didn't ask to have done."
Does that make any sense to you at all?? A consulting firm can be "professional" by working within the scope of the project and disclosing that assumptions were provided to them on which to base their work. SAIC appeared to do that with PTOI...but the details of the report were hidden from PTOI shareholders.
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