Over a HALF BILLION sole-source contract with no bidding?
When I was conducting RFPs, we couldn’t go over $30,000 sole-source and had to write lots of justification (REAL justification about the uniqueness of the supplier or their tech) and get lots of upper management approvals.
Big gummint = big corruption, best argument against big government.
Probably awarded as an emergency expenditure, which does not require compedative bidding.