{"id":190556,"date":"2009-11-14T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/14\/and-while-we-are-on-the-tanker\/"},"modified":"2009-11-14T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T12:50:00","slug":"and-while-we-are-on-the-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/14\/and-while-we-are-on-the-tanker\/","title":{"rendered":"And While We are On the Tanker&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both Boeing and Northrop\/Grumman-EADS are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;channel=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-11-09&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/11\/09\/AW_11_09_2009_p40-180944.xml&amp;headline=Boeing%2C+Northrop+Sour+On+KC-X+Draft+RFP\">expressing serious concerns on the USAF&#8217;s draft tanker Request for Proposals (RFP)<\/a>. (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">paid subscription required<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>We have Northrop&#8217;s complaint that Boeing got Northrop&#8217;s detailed pricing data when it made its challenge on the last contract, and Boeing is complaining that there requirements are all weighted identically:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 102);\">The draft RFP places equal value on non-essential and essential qualities\u2014such as sink and toilet water flow and fuel offload or past performance\u2014respectively. \u201cIf everything is important, is anything important?\u201d<\/span> [Boeing business development vice president Mitchell]<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 102);\"> Waldman said. \u201cIn this competition, risk is essentially pass\/fail.\u201d In the last competition, key requirements were weighed as well as past performance and risk.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are also complaints from Boeing that have not been released to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary of the Airforce has stated that he is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Ac1b58081-6114-400d-a9de-e23be77e2e58\">open to changing the RFP<\/a>, but that would invite a repeat of the last clusterf$#@ on tanker procurement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both Boeing and Northrop\/Grumman-EADS are expressing serious concerns on the USAF&#8217;s draft tanker Request for Proposals (RFP). (paid subscription required) We have Northrop&#8217;s complaint that Boeing got Northrop&#8217;s detailed pricing data when it made its challenge on the last contract, and Boeing is complaining that there requirements are all weighted identically: The draft RFP places &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190556"}],"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=190556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}