Posted on 11/19/2010 7:47:21 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
What!?!?!
Just when we thought this was going to be wrapped up soon, the Air Force has mistakenly given Boeing and EADS information on the other team’s respective bids for KC-X.
Read the following from Defense News:
“Earlier this month, there was a clerical error that resulted in limited amounts of identical source selection information being provided to both KC-X offerors concerning their competitor’s offer,” Air Force spokesman Col. Les Kodlick said Nov. 20. “Both offerors immediately recognized the error and contacted the Air Force contracting officers.”
Kodlick said the service is analyzing the information that was inadvertently disclosed and has taken steps to ensure that both competitors have had equal access to the same information. The service is also trying to find out how the mistake happened and ensure that it is not repeated.
It sounds like this mix up factored into the delays in awarding the $35 billion contract for 179 refuelers. While Pentagon planners insisted the award would be made some time this “fall,” the KC-X RfP listed an award date of Nov. 12. That’s clearly come and gone with no contract.
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My experiences with contracting specialists is that they make TSA personnel look like a collection of Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, and the combined casts of CSI.
Ping
The ones I worked with (which is not all) had a mix of very smart, some lazzzzzy and a few very stupid.
I was on two large Source Selction teams and politics tumped everything else, so ya, the military needs to clean up their act.
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