Its not that obvious. It all depends on how you do the selection and how you value the selection. SpaceX will have a huge payload capability that NASA didn't

Its not that obvious. It all depends on how you do the selection and how you value the selection. SpaceX will have a huge payload capability that NASA didn't bid for. And therefore SpaceX gets no money for it. This is just how NASA choose to do this. They could have instead award contracts sized based on the capability both long and short term a projects add to NASA plans.