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Oshkosh ‘Heartened’ GAO Denies Price Challenge In FMTV Protest, Official Says

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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

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By Ann Roosevelt Oshkosh Corp. [OSK] said it was "heartened" the Government Accountability Office (GAO) decision denied BAE Systems' and Navistar Defense LLC's protest of the evaluation of price in the Army's award of the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV), a company official said. "We were really heartened that the GAO ruling specifically says that the GAO set aside any challenges to Oshkosh pricing," Mike Ivy, vice president and general manager of Army programs, told Defense Daily in an…

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