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A NASA official asked Boeing if it would protest a major contract it lost. Instead, Boeing resubmitted its bid. – The Washington Post
A NASA official asked a Boeing executive if Boeing was going to contest the bid loss. It didn’t. Instead, it resubmitted the bid, a move so unusual that NASA officials…
So in February, Doug Loverro, then the head of NASAs human exploration directorate, called Jim Chilton, the senior vice president of Boeings space and launch division, to explain that the company was going to lose the contract and to inquire whether it would file a challenge, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.
That call, which occurred during a period when the agency was to have no contact with any of the bidders, is now the subject of investigations by the NASA inspector general…
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