{"id":194934,"date":"2008-08-07T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/07\/boeing-no-bid-on-tanker\/"},"modified":"2008-08-07T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T23:57:00","slug":"boeing-no-bid-on-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/07\/boeing-no-bid-on-tanker\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing No-Bid On Tanker?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a number of possibilities as to Boeing&#8217;s response to the new RFP, but the possibility that <a href=\"http:\/\/g2globalsolutions.com\/review\/?p=273\">Boeing would refuse to submit a proposal to the RFP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While I don&#8217;t think that Boeing would be serious about a no-bid, it would be an interesting ploy to either get the terms and conditions reset to something more favorable, get a split order, or to get the Congress to give them the contract through legislation.<\/p>\n<p>I actually think that this strategy is only marginally less likely than Boeing submitting a shortened 777, because I don&#8217;t think that they could meet a timetable for the bids or delivery with that.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/blogs\/the-dewline\/2008\/08\/boeings-six-options.html\">The DEW Line<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a number of possibilities as to Boeing&#8217;s response to the new RFP, but the possibility that Boeing would refuse to submit a proposal to the RFP. While I don&#8217;t think that Boeing would be serious about a no-bid, it would be an interesting ploy to either get the terms and conditions reset to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1016,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-international-commerce","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194934"}],"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=194934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}