What I failed at was the actual thing.

Meridian’s site staff had a six-month waiting period and a seven-thousand-dollar deductible, and I spent about four months of that year trying to get Bramhall to require better in the vendor contract, which is a thing large companies can absolutely do and which some of them do.

I got it into a procurement review.

It came out of the procurement review.

The reason it came out is that it would have raised the contract price by about nine percent, and the facilities budget was under a cost program, and the man who made that decision was not a bad man and had no idea that the number he was protecting was Ceci Duran’s crew’s insurance.