2nd Bidder Protests JTLV Awards

2nd Bidder Protests JTLV Awards (NSI News Source Info) November 13, 2008: On Nov. 10, Textron-Boeing-SAIC became the second team to protest the U.S. Army's Oct. 29 award of Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) technology demonstration contracts. "We asked the GAO [Government Accountability Office] to review our team against the requirements in the RfP [request for proposal]. We have specifically asked the GAO to review scoring methodology and standards of evaluation in three key areas: system maturity, logistics and cost," said Stephen Greene, Textron communications vice president. "We believe there were unintended discrepancies in the methodology and we felt our proposal deserved higher scores." The protest follows Northrop-Oshkosh's Nov. 7 filing. The Army said that same day that it would temporarily stop work on the JLTV program. The winners of 27-month, $60 million contracts were BAE-Navistar, Lockheed-BAE and General Tactical Vehicles.