Reading the Source selection document (1), NASA only negotiated with SpaceX because the company was: > both very highly rated from a technical and management p

Reading the Source selection document (1), NASA only negotiated with SpaceX because the company was: > both very highly rated from a technical and management perspective and that also had, by a wide margin, the lowest initially-proposed price. BO didn't rate as high and was more expensive. (1) https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/option-a-source-selection-statement-final.pdf https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/option-...