More details about the requirements and changes to the RFP, and the official memos between Boeing and the Air Force regarding those changes:
Boeing's tanker bid damaged when Air Force changed criteria, Dicks says
By
Alicia Mundy
Seattle Times Washington bureau
WASHINGTON — During a contentious hearing Wednesday over the Air Force tanker deal awarded to Airbus parent EADS and Northrop Grumman, Rep. Norm Dicks said the Pentagon changed contract specifications to favor that team's bid over Boeing's so they wouldn't drop out of the contest.
Waving documents, the Bremerton Democrat asked Air Force acquisitions director Sue Payton whether she had made changes "at the last minute" to the air-lift standards in the Request for Proposal (RFP) after the bidding process started Jan. 30, 2007 for the $40 billion contract.
"I urge you not to say 'No,' " Dicks said, adding, "I have the letter. You did it."
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