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L-3 Vertex Aerospace Survives Air Force KC-10 Support Contract Bid Protest, Starts Work

Pat Host

Tuesday, October 11th, 2016

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L-3 Vertex Aerospace Survives Air Force KC-10 Support Contract Bid Protest, Starts Work

KC-10. Photo: Air Force

L-3 Communications [LLL] Vertex Aerospace, having survived a bid protest, recently started work on an Air Force contract from June potentially worth $1.9 billion to provide contractor logistics support for the service’s fleet of KC-10s.The Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Sept. 22 denied a bid protest by AAR Defense Systems and Logistics. AAR argued that the Air Force failed to properly consider the company’s experience, asserting that the agency improperly evaluated the offerors’ proposals under various evaluation factors and failed…

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