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KC-45 protest summary report released

June 25, 2008 @ 3:26 pm · Filed under Boeing, Contract Awards, Department of Defense, EADS, GAO, Northrop Grumman Corp., Protest, U.S. Air Force, commercial aviation, development program, logistics

The GAO released a summary of why they upheld the protest by Boeing over the KC-45 award. See an article here. The chief reason was due to the Air Force’s failure to properly apply the criteria for source selection. Of the several reasons listed two ones that stand out is that they [...]

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KC-45 protest works it course

April 1, 2008 @ 5:02 pm · Filed under Boeing, Contract Awards, EADS, GAO, Northrop Grumman Corp., Protest, U.S. Air Force, commercial aviation, development program, logistics

This article makes it seem that this is something unique, but it isn’t. The winner has to stop work on the contract as DoD cannot pay them. They can certainly proceed at risk, which some companies do in this situation, but on a contract this size it makes sense not to. The [...]

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