{"id":195588,"date":"2008-06-28T06:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/28\/usaf-acquisition-officials-believe-tanker-purchase-can-go-forward-without-rebid\/"},"modified":"2008-06-28T06:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T11:22:00","slug":"usaf-acquisition-officials-believe-tanker-purchase-can-go-forward-without-rebid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/28\/usaf-acquisition-officials-believe-tanker-purchase-can-go-forward-without-rebid\/","title":{"rendered":"USAF Acquisition Officials Believe Tanker Purchase Can Go Forward Without Rebid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that people in the USAF who have seen the whole GAO report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensetech.org\/archives\/004267.html\">do not believe that it will require a complete rebid of the contract<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if this means that the errors are small, or if the Airbus bid was that much better, or that they need the tanker right now, or some combination of all of the above:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 255);\"><p>&#8220;Their finding is that the full document is quite different from the summary,&#8221; issued last Wednesday, said a source familiar with the issue. The source said Air Force leaders believe much of what was challenged is \u201cprocedural\u201d and can be resolved without rebidding the deal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We should know in the next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that people in the USAF who have seen the whole GAO report do not believe that it will require a complete rebid of the contract. I&#8217;m not sure if this means that the errors are small, or if the Airbus bid was that much better, or that they need the tanker right now, &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195588"}],"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=195588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}