{"id":189636,"date":"2010-02-27T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/27\/oshkosh-truck-bid-survives-contract-protests\/"},"modified":"2010-02-27T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T13:23:00","slug":"oshkosh-truck-bid-survives-contract-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/27\/oshkosh-truck-bid-survives-contract-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Oshkosh Truck Bid Survives Contract Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAE Systems and Navistar International have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&amp;sid=adSVt3MnE5HM\">had their protests on the FMTV contract award to Oshkosh overturned by the Army<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#000099;\">Oshkosh Corp. fended off a challenge from two competitors, keeping a U.S. Army contract to build armored trucks valued at as much as $3 billion. Oshkosh shares jumped in late trading.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s decision by the Army lifts a stop-work order placed last year after losing bidders BAE Systems Plc and Navistar International Corp. protested to the Government Accountability Office, the Army said in a statement. The companies said the Army didn\u2019t fully weigh the risk in Oshkosh\u2019s proposal for the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles, or FMTVs.<\/p>\n<p>The GAO in December determined that the Army didn\u2019t consider that Oshkosh lacked key equipment, allowing the company to receive the same high production-capability rating as BAE, which had made the trucks since 1991. The agency asked the Army to reevaluate the bids.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not surprised, it was a lower bid, and the truck itself is designed to be assembled out of component parts with little, if any machining, welding, etc. being done at the plant.<\/p>\n<p>At least that was the scheme when I worked there.<sup>*<\/sup> They did not intend to have a machine shop or an electrical shop, because they expected everything to come in to specification from the vendors.<\/p>\n<p>If this is a fixed price contract, the only risk here is that of Oshkosh.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Full disclosure I worked at Stewart &amp; Stevenson, Tactical Vehicle Systems, in Sealy, TX on the FMTV in 1992 and 1993.<\/span><sup>\u2020<\/sup><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Yes, I have worked everywhere. Maybe I can&#8217;t hold down a job, but more likely this has been my role as &#8220;technical hit man&#8221;, where you are parachuted in to take care of a specific need.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAE Systems and Navistar International have had their protests on the FMTV contract award to Oshkosh overturned by the Army: Oshkosh Corp. fended off a challenge from two competitors, keeping a U.S. Army contract to build armored trucks valued at as much as $3 billion. Oshkosh shares jumped in late trading. Today\u2019s decision by the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}