Orbital ATK’s [OA] winning Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) proposal should have been rejected by NASA as unacceptable due to the company’s “dual use” spare parts plan, Ball Aerospace [BLL] argued in its unsuccessful bid protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO).According GAO’s public release from its July 16 protest denial, Ball specifically contended that the request for offers (RFO) expressly prohibited offerors from including costs for the Option 1 spacecraft, or what would be JPSS-3, in the funding profile…
