When the KC-X was first bid, the contract for 179 tankers was estimated to be worth $40 billion.
After NG-EADS won the first KC-X go around, they bid $35 billion, less that what Boeing bid.
Now that the RFP is out, and the changes that NG-EADS wanted were not made, they probably won’t bid, leaving it to Boeing.
Look for the KC-X to once again be a $40 billion contract.
the bids were not $5B apart.
The AF abitrarily added cost to Boeing’s bid for risk. The GAO found a math error in the AF numbers and the Boeing bid was actually the lower bid.
this is even after the AF neglected real world issues like ramp space.