{"id":194955,"date":"2008-08-06T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/06\/tanker-rfp-re-released\/"},"modified":"2008-08-06T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T01:37:00","slug":"tanker-rfp-re-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/06\/tanker-rfp-re-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanker RFP Re-Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Air Force has released a new RFP, and already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodbuzz.com\/2008\/08\/06\/bias-in-new-tanker-bid-boeing-supporter\/\">a Congressman from Boeing is whining<\/a>, &#8220;Not Fair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can look at the proposals (warning <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">big<\/span> PDFs) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/media\/pdf\/NewTankerRFPpart1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/media\/pdf\/NewTankerRFPpart2.pdf\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The good folks at <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Flight International<\/span> have read it, and they note <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/08\/06\/310511\/dod-re-opens-tanker-competition-makes-3-major-changes.html\">3 major changes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Official credit for having fuel offload capacity in excess of the RFP minimums.<\/li>\n<li>Separating maintenance and fuel costs from acquisition, and giving more import to acquisition costs in the evaluation process.<\/li>\n<li>Extending the lifecycle period from 25 years to 40 years.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The first should favor Airbus, the second should too, because it pretty much locks out the Boeing 777, because it would require yet more development and have a higher acquisition cost.<\/p>\n<p>The third might favor Boeing, because being a smaller plane, the 767 consumes less fuel, though it would likely be a wash on a per pound of fuel offloaded basis.<\/p>\n<p>I still think that the Airbus offering brings a lot more to the table, but I thought that before the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">first<\/span> award, and did not expect them to get it, because of Boeing&#8217;s political pull.<\/p>\n<p>Break out the popcorn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Air Force has released a new RFP, and already a Congressman from Boeing is whining, &#8220;Not Fair.&#8221; You can look at the proposals (warning big PDFs) here and here The good folks at Flight International have read it, and they note 3 major changes: Official credit for having fuel offload capacity in excess &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194955"}],"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=194955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}