Both contracts are for 20 tons to orbit, so the difference is not as large. Also, there was no competition - both 1st place and 2nd place were assured contracts

Both contracts are for 20 tons to orbit, so the difference is not as large. Also, there was no competition - both 1st place and 2nd place were assured contracts. So the competition would have been only for the second place, to not miss out. But since there were only two entrants... Now Congress want to down-select commercial crew to force NASA to depend on a single contractor that can then start jacking up the price like Boeing and Lockheed Martin regularly do, to kill the commercial benefits of commercial space and protect the government monopoly way of doing business.