Now Reports That EADS May Bid After All
Filed under: Boeing, Congress, EADS, KC-X, KC-X Tanker News, Northrop Grumman Corp., Syndicated Industry News
There is a rumor that the Pentagon may delay the deadline for submission of a proposal for the KC-X to accommodate either a solo bid or another partnership. This contradicts what was reported yesterday that EADS-NA CEO Sean O’Keefe said the company wouldn’t bid without Northrop Grumman (NOC). It will be seriously difficult for the company to bid by itself. It would need to find another U.S. company to work with.
This might be second thoughts by DoD as they realize how difficult doing a single bid contract award will be. This is not a sole source contract but right now it would only receive one qualified offer.
KC-X RFP Questions And Answers Continue
Filed under: Boeing, EADS, KC-X, KC-X Tanker News, Syndicated Industry News
The U.S. Air Force put out a draft Request for Proposal (RFP) in late September. It has proceeded apace with the receipt of questions related to the RFP and putting out answers. The idea is that the type of questions received should help write the final RFP to make it better and get better proposals.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that so far two sets of answers have been put out and they already run to several pages. Considering that it is expected only the same two teams will bid it indicates the new RFP is significantly different.
This will be a long, hard slog of a contract award again.
Defense corruption in Russia
Filed under: Contract Awards, IT, Russia, crime, development program
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that contract fraud was perpetuated on the Russian government through manipulation of contract evaluation and awards. The Ministry had contracted with the state owned 26th Central Scientific Research Institute to manage a security software system. The Research Institute awarded the contract to a company that turned out to be made up of people on the contract evaluation board. Up to 20 M rubles may be involved in this case where little or no work was done and the money was moved around via false contracts. In the US when a Source Selection Evaluation Board (SSEB) is established all the members are investigated for such conflicts, although there have been cases of outright bribery of members for a favorable contract award.
For more see Komersant’s website.
US Air Force to award CSAR-X recompete soon
Filed under: Agusta Westland, Boeing, Contract Awards, GAO, Military Aviation, Northrop Grumman Corp., Proposal, Protest, Sikorsky, U.S. Air Force, UTC, commercial aviation, development program, production program
In a contract that has fallen to the back burner recently due to KC-45 events, the Air Force announced that they would complete the recompete for the CSAR-X by September. Contract award would be soon after. The CSAR-X contract to replace the HH-60 PaveHawk aircraft was originally awarded to Boeing with a variant of the CH-47. Sikorsky and Lockheed Martin protested and won with the GAO ruling that the Air Force did not apply the selection criteria properly. The whole contract was recompeted with Boeing, Sikorsky and Lockheed resubmitting bids.
For more see this article at www.pressconnects.com for the Binghamton area.
Seattle Times’ Analysis of Boeing Contract Win
Filed under: Boeing, Northrop Grumman Corp., Protest, U.S. Air Force
In this article entitled Boeing Wins Tanker Protest, But Drama Is Far From Over, the Seattle Times states:
The saga of the Air Force refueling tanker contract is not over by a long shot, though Boeing won a huge victory Wednesday when the Government Accountability Office (GAO) comprehensively backed the company’s protest of the initial contract award.
Read the original article here.
DARPA awards contract for development of advanced detection equipment
In a contract award not directly related to the SAIC one below, DAPRA awarded Bioident a contract to develop printed circuit board sensors. See an article here. The goal is to utilize Biodent’s process for making sheets with semiconductor material on them to reduce the size of sensors by incorporating the read out device on the board. Currently larger optical systems are used. No contract value was given, but it continues to demonstrate the amount of R&D the US is doing in such areas.
Global Warming favors Boeing
Filed under: Boeing, Contract Awards, EADS, GAO, Military Aviation, Northrop Grumman Corp., Promotions, Protest, U.S. Air Force, commercial aviation, development program, logistics, production program
According to this article a Washington Democratic Congressman wants to introduce legislation that requires the DoD to evaluate the “green house gas” emissions when awarding defense contracts. If this had been done as part of the KC-45 award, then Boeing would have won as nominally the KC-767 emits less harmful gases then the larger A330. Read more
Air Force leadership interfered in contract award, disciplined
Filed under: Contract Awards, Federal Budget Process, Protest, U.S. Air Force
It turns out, according to this article, that the Air Force violated all sorts of laws and regulations in awarding a media company a contract to help promote the Thunderbirds aerial demonstration team. The company that won cost twice as much as the other bidder, who protested the contract award in 2006. It turns out that the company that won had a recently retired Air Force general as a partner and the current uniformed leadership of the Air Force interfered to steer it to that company. Now several people have been admonished and reassigned. Read more
Political Fight Over KC-45 Contract Heating Up
The Financial Times reports that the political war over the KC-45 contract is intensifying. According to the article, Northrop Grumman is busy lining up lobbyists and support in Congress to fight Boeing’s protest of their contract award. Read more
Senator’s Shelby view of the KC-45 contract
Filed under: Boeing, Contract Awards, EADS, Northrop Grumman Corp., U.S. Air Force, commercial aviation, logistics
This article in The Financial Times by Senator Shelby sums up the view from Alabama on the KC-45 contract award. He stresses the fact that the Air Force utilized the proper DoD regulations and instructions on requirements and source selection. Unfortunately for Boeing there is no standard for number of US jobs in these kind of selections.
NASA Selects Qwest to Upgrade Its Network
Filed under: Syndicated Industry News
Alelo Provides Enterprise License for Handheld Training Platform to the DoD
Filed under: Syndicated Industry News
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Selects the Acadis Readiness Suite to Modernize Training Management
Filed under: Syndicated Industry News
Bulova Technologies Group, Inc. Announces 8-K of U.S. Army Material Command Award Contract Details
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Protonex Awarded $1.49 Million Contract Extension by U.S. Army
Filed under: Syndicated Industry News
Oshkosh Defense Receives $158 Million Order for U.S. Marine Corps Heavy Fleet
Filed under: Syndicated Industry News
U.S. Army Affirms FMTV Contract Award to Oshkosh Corporation
Filed under: Syndicated Industry News
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