You are taking things out of context. ULA was a government formed monopoly and the Dod basically wanted to hand them a block contract that would basically give

You are taking things out of context. ULA was a government formed monopoly and the Dod basically wanted to hand them a block contract that would basically give them a monopoly for very long time. SpaceX would have been excluded from Dod flights for basically a decade or more, even within a few years they had the means to compete. This was clearly a totally anti-competitive and this is why SpaceX won and since then such large block contracts are no longer done. The Dod still hands out too many launches at once but what they tried with ULA initially was far, far worse.