Sierra Nevada Protests $6.8 Billion Boeing-SpaceX Award
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Sierra Nevada Corp. filed a formal protest with the U.S. government to block the $6.8 billion “space taxi” contracts awarded to Boeing Co. and Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
The company’s own proposal would have saved as much as $900 million compared with the bids chosen by the government and was “near equivalent” on technical aspects, it said in a statement yesterday. It filed the legal challenge with the Government Accountability Office over what it called “serious questions and inconsistencies” in the contract award process.