User talk:Sherwoodross

sherwoodross:In the mid 80's Ross Bicycles of Allentown, PA was the low bidder for an RFP for Squad Automatic Weapons in an open bid promulgated by the Rock Island Arsenal. Ross Bicycles was never awarded the contract and was not compensated for the huge amount of money spent to prepare for the manufacture of the SAW M249 Weapon. After many interventions by Fabrique International with the White House, the original RFP was aborted and a new RFP was issued with FN as sole source. Ross Bicycles price for the SAW M249 was approximately $1,000.00 less than that paid to FN. Ross Bicycles would have saved the United States a huge sum of money had it been allowed to proceed with the contract. The Ross facility was a modern factory of over 200,000 square feet with two rail sidings situated on 42 acres site in Allentown, PA. Ross Bicycles never fully recovered financially and went out of business in 1987.