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Analyst Believes Air Force Preference For Low Price Discouraging Bidders From T-X

Pat Host

Wednesday, February 1st, 2017

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Analyst Believes Air Force Preference For Low Price Discouraging Bidders From T-X

Raytheon partnered with Finmeccanica, CAE and Honeywell to offer the T-100 for the T-X competition. Photo: Defense Daily.

A leading aerospace analyst believes the Air Force’s preference for lowest price in the T-X trainer program is discouraging potential bidders from competing.“The Air Force is really running this competition as a price shootout,” Teal Group Vice President of Analysis Richard Aboulafia said Wednesday in an email. Lowest price wins, he said, “as long as the competitor meets the performance parameters.”For the second time in one week, a potential T-X contractor announced it would not submit a bid. On Wednesday,…

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