Kushner's COVID-19 "task force" consisted of untrained volunteers using personal email: documentary
Source: Alternet.com
Volunteers were told they needed to acquire "stuff" for the government. "Stuff" meant personal protective equipment
A new documentary shining a light on White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner's handling of the COVID-19 is raising questions about the credibility of his Supply Chain Task Force's pandemic response over the last several months.
In the forthcoming documentary titled, "Totally Under Control," Max Kennedy, Jr., also the 27-year-old grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, reflected on his time as a volunteer working for President Donald Trump's administration in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
"My old boss called me and said he heard Kushner's task force needed younger volunteers who had general skills and were willing to work seven days a week for no money," Kennedy said.
Although Kennedy admitted that he was apprehensive about working for the Trump administration, he took the position. When he arrived at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in Washington, D.C., he and others were led to an underground conference room with no windows. TVs blaring news reports from Fox News covered the walls as representatives of FEMA and the military entered to brief the new staff about their positions.
According to Kennedy, volunteers were told that they needed to acquire "stuff" for the government. He soon learned the "stuff" they were referring to was actually personal protective equipment (PPE). After government officials left, Kennedy and other volunteers slowly began to better understand what was transpiring.
"We thought we'd be auxiliary support for an existing procurement team," Kennedy said in the documentary. "Instead, we were the team."
...
Read more: https://www.alternet.org/2020/10/kushner/
This is an unbelievable read.
The lack of experience of everyone in this administration really shows everyday.
It's like the students were running the school with the Principal's permission.
= new reply since forum marked as read
Who the hell was doing the procurements then? There HAD to be some kind of TRAINED and CERTIFIED contracting officer actually doing the purchasing. 
Just scanned the article and saw this -
In the documentary, Kennedy explained the process he and other volunteers had developed on their own in an effort to simply get the job done.
"We would call factories and say, 'We think the federal government can send you a check in 60 days,' and they would say, 'There's someone with a briefcase of cash, and they're offering to pay me right now,'" Kennedy said in the film. "And we would run around the FEMA building looking for someone who could tell us what payment terms the government was allowed to offer, and no one ever told us."
A "briefcase of case"????????????????????????????????????????
OMFG
- THAT WAS ALL UNAUTHORIZED PROCUREMENTS. EVERYTHING RELATED TO PROCUREMENTS HAVE TO BE DONE PER THE "FAR" (FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION)
The FAR is a fucking BOOK of regulations that are updated continually!
is doing the groundwork first - defining what is needed, coming up with a procurement plan that might include a statement of work, perhaps doing some research for companies that could provide the product or service, getting a few bids, and then at some point, depending on the thresholds, a purchase can be made, although additional work needs to be done to determine whether something is "sole source" or on a GSA schedule, etc.
For the stuff they appeared to be buying as a "national" effort for FEMA, there should have been a RFQ and/or RFP put out, but obviously that might not have been done if they are talking about "suitcases of money". 
It would seem unbelievable that stuff would go around FEMA's contracting office.
is like years and years of "hearings" to investigate all this malfeasance.
but I doubt that will happen in a very "public format" because the damage is so vast right now, that it will take every effort to -
1.) get the virus under control
2.) restore every agency back to functioning again and carrying out their intended missions, by stocking them with SANE people
3.) deal with an extreme budget deficit
4.) deal with a massive recession due to #1 & #2 & #3 by--
5.) repeal (ing) those damn tax cuts and get (ting) some revenue back into the Treasury so that the--
6.) ACA is restored (because all those COVID-19 hospitalizations are NOT "free" - the bills will be due) and--
7.) funding for infrastructure and everything else is available to boost the economy
This means a multitasking effort where hearings are held behind the scenes initially, while the "public" focus is put on serving the immediate dire needs of the American public - like food, clothing, shelter, and some income - either from jobs and/or subsidies (you have thousands and thousands of homes destroyed and people displaced due to wildfires, floods, and hurricanes).
The one big problem we have with hearings and Commissions is that an idiotic precedent has been set where impacted members of the GOP REFUSE to respond to subpoenas. And unless that is fixed (which might now be difficult due to all the loons that Turtle bulldozed into the court system), then the whole concept becomes meaningless.
