Posted on 01/22/2011 8:04:06 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Contractors submitted revised proposals for the U.S. Air Force’s KC-10 CNS/ATM upgrade work this month after the service discovered it botched the first competitive round last year that resulted in a $216 million award going to Boeing.
Boeing was ordered to stop work on the contract in October owing to a mistake made by the Air Force in the original competition. Air Force Col. Michael Schmidt, contractor logistics support program director for the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center (where the contract is managed), acknowledged a “need for corrective action associated with the original source selection,” but has not specified the nature of the problem.
Industry sources have suggested there was a misunderstanding about whether a piece of equipment was to be furnished by the government during the original competition.
Competitors from the original round were invited to resubmit bids if they were deemed “in the competitive range,” though Air Force officials declined to identify how this status was determined , to maintain the integrity of the source selection.
Boeing has submitted a proposal, and the company is “confident that the solution we originally provided and our current solution is superior,” according to spokesman Scott Day. Meanwhile, the company is likely trying to keep as much of the team together as possible, despite the stop-work order.
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EADS/Airbus, still the best, hopefully they will choose based on need and quality and not listen to the Boeing lobbyists that are trying to sell the inferior 767.
This is an upgrade of an existing aircraft. It’s not a tanker and has nothing to do with the new tanker competition.
I swear the military contracting personnel have all gone brain dead.
I agree. There seems to be total chaos.
Boeing hopes to inherit the service/upgrade work on these aircraft since they merged with their original builder.
My bad, I thought this was part of the endless rehash of the tanker biz...
It is a tanker, but you are right that it has nothing to do with the current competition for new tankers.
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