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Urgh, sole source contract. Maybe they should take some of that military budget for a second contractor. Starship is my favourite but this could reduce com

• jandrese 6y ago
  What? The announcement here was the result of three different bids from three different companies. The exact opposite of a sole source contract. This is textbook competitive bidding.
• jacquesm 6y ago
  Right now there is no viable competition. That's what this means.
• ncallaway 6y ago
  This wasn't a sole source contract. This was the result of an extended bidding process that had many bids and multiple rounds of eliminations. As far as I can tell this was a fairly transparent, competitive bidding process, where the selected vendor was the one offering one of the lowest bids. It's also a firm fixed price contract, so while there may be concern about a failure to deliver we know that there won't be significant cost for overruns