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by Sean Meade at
6/27/2007 3:51 PM CDT
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Amy Butler's got the exclusive story on Raytheon's particular objection to the JCA award:
The Disputed Winner: C-27J Spartan. Credit: Joris Janssen LokRaytheon's protest of a $2 billion U.S. Army contract to its competitor hinges on what company officials feel is an errant scoring process during the source selection this spring.
"There were errors in evaluating our proposal ... and in some areas in how they turned those evaluations into scores," says Jim Hvizd, Raytheon's Joint Cargo Aircraft (JCA) program manager. The Army awarded a contract that could be worth up to $12 billion over 20 years to an L-3 Communications/Alenia North America/Boeing team that proposed the C-27J for an Army/Air Force intratheater lift requirement.
Read the whole story.
