>Why are we contracting with a company that doesn't actually have the ability to manufacture what we are paying them to supply?

Few companies in the US actually have the ability to do rapid turn-around custom manufacturing on anything in-house. The ones that do tend to charge an enormous premium.

>Bedrock and its owners offered to procure one million (1,000,000) N-95 compliant respirator masks from their contacts in China...in reliance of the Defendants’ misrepresentations, the Commonwealth issued an emergency purchase order and paid Bedrock $3,560,000, with the understanding that Bedrock Consulting Group would deliver the 1,000,000 masks within 20 days.

The Commonwealth was high on crack cocaine when it believed some has-been "consultants" from fucking Salem had any ability to deliver on jobs like that in timeframes of 20 days. a 5 minute Google search would've likely confirmed for anyone with a brain that all the principals at "Bedrock Consulting Group" were certifiable nincompoops, who couldn't deliver a pizza on time.

>Yeah, that $3 mill is basically never coming back.

Nope. Seems likely their "reputable supplier" in China also only took money up front, same as they asked and received from the Commonwealth, and then fucked them and only delivered a fraction of the order before they stopped replying and went dark. Bedrock's cut is spent and the rest is long gone.