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The less interesting version: A completely unprofessional company with a ridiculously unsubstantiated bid can't read rules. Seriously, though, in bidding proce
by ergo98 16y ago
The less interesting version: A completely unprofessional company with a ridiculously unsubstantiated bid can't read rules.
Seriously, though, in bidding processes like this rules have to be enforced. One of the reasons the first, expensive round of bids got nullified was because rules weren't always followed.
- philwelch 16y agoThe main reason is that in the original competition, Boeing (a huge American company with senators pulling for it from at least one state) lost to a foreign company, which pissed off the protectionists and jingoes enough to want to run the whole thing over again.
- ergo98 16y agoMaybe. Yet the way they manage to force the process to be rerun is to find events like someone allowing an entry 5 minutes past the deadline.
- Confusion 16y agoNorthrop isn't a foreign company and as the party delivering the actual planes, a substantial amount of the money would have gone to them.