Thu, Jun 28, 2007
Says C-295 Rated Equal To Competitor, And It's Cheaper
In a release issued Wednesday, the Team JCA partnership led by
Raytheon and EADS CASA North America detailed the reasons it is
contesting the Joint Cargo Aircraft selection process. As ANN reported, the team
filed its protest June 22 with the Government Accountability
Office.
"Following a 'debrief' from the US Army, Team JCA carefully
considered the Army's selection process and weighed the merits and
challenges of an award protest," said Jon Jones, president of
Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems. "We decided that a protest was
necessary based on crucial portions of our proposal that were
either incorrectly measured or not considered during the source
selection process.
"We took this action to understand what it takes to meet the
needs of our customer and to better support our nation's
warfighters," Jones added. A team led by L-3 Communications and
Boeing, offering the C-27J Spartan, won the contract bid.
Team JCA is offering the EADS CASA C-295 military transport for
the JCA requirement. The protest centers on three key points,
according to Raytheon:
- The JCA source selection board rated Team JCA equal to its
competitor on all non-price factors in its criteria, including
technical, logistics, management/production and past
performance.
- Raytheon beat its competitor's price by more than 15
percent
- There were errors in the specific evaluation of data and the
application of the evaluation criteria
"By the best value criteria in the JCA request for proposals, we
are convinced that Raytheon has the best value solution," Jones
said.
In military service with coalition partners worldwide, the C-295
is completing its seventh year of JCA-type missions with the armed
services of Spain, Poland, Algeria, Jordan, Brazil, Portugal and
Finland.
EADS CASA has 55 aircraft on order, 32 of which have already
been delivered.
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