[quote]WASHINGTON — The Government Accountability Office has denied Boeing’s protest of the US Air Force’s decision to award Northrop Grumman a contract to build the Long Range Strike Bomber, allowing Northrop to move forward with engineering and development work after a three-month delay.
"GAO reviewed the challenges to the selection decision raised by Boeing and has found no basis to sustain or uphold the protest," GAO wrote in the Feb. 16 decision. "In denying Boeing’s protest, GAO concluded that the technical evaluation, and the evaluation of costs, was reasonable, consistent with the terms of the solicitation, and in accordance with procurement laws and regulations."
Northrop had hit pause on LRS-B work after Boeing and partner Lockheed filed a bid protest with the GAO Nov. 6 over the Oct. 27 contract award. But now the company can move forward with engineering and development work, in anticipation of a tentative 2025 date for initial operating capability. The contract, the largest military aircraft contract since Lockheed won the F-35 joint strike fighter more than a decade ago, is expected to top $55 billion over the life of the program.[/quote]
[url]http://www.defensenews.com/story/breaking-news/2016/02/16/gao-denies-boeings-protest-long-range-strike-bomber-contract/80433300/[/url]
Yeah, get fucked Boeing. You lost so suck it up.
Quick, someone who knows what they're talking about tell me what the ramifications of this is.
Boeing and Lockheed lost and they can't do anything about it to get it
[QUOTE=Saxon;49770245]Boeing and Lockheed lost and they can't do anything about it to get it[/QUOTE]
Basically this. They lost to Northrop Grumman and tried to sue the government over it. The contract was worth US$60b or something.
seems like boeing and Lockheed have gotten too big for their own good lately, they keep bidding on all these contracts and don't deliver anything but bloated, sub par products. Last month it was lockheed's turn to complain about them losing out to Oshkosh who delivered a vehicle that far out performed lockheeds piece of crap, and at a fraction of the price, then before that, lockheed-boeing's ULA refused to even bid on launch contracts while getting billions to maintain their capacity.
It's nice to see these entitled dicks not getting their way for a while.
The entitled dicks are getting their way either way. We are buying 80 aircraft at over half a billion dollars each. 80 aircraft we don't even fucking need.
[QUOTE=GunFox;49771491]The entitled dicks are getting their way either way. We are buying 80 aircraft at over half a billion dollars each. 80 aircraft we don't even fucking need.[/QUOTE]
The US needs new bombers to replace their horribly aging B52s and B1s.
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