BOEING'S PROTEST

摘要

Boeing, along with its partner Lockheed Martin, filed a protest of the LRS-B award on Nov. 6, starting the clock on a 100-day assessment by the Government Accountability Office to determine if there were any improprieties in awarding the contract to Northrop Grumman, and if there were, what remedies are needed. In a press statement, Boeing questioned Northrop Grumman's technical and financial ability to carry out the program, and suggested Boeing had offered a lower price, calling the selection process "fundamentally flawed." "The cost evaluation performed by the government did not properly reward the contractors'proposals to break the upward-spiraling historical cost curves of defense acquisitions, or properly evaluate the relative or comparative risk of the competitor's ability to perform, as required by the solicitation," Boeing claimed. The company said it had offered "the best possible LRS-B at a cost that uniquely defies the prohibitively expensive trends of the nation's past defense acquisitions."