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Kistler Loses GAO Protest

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
January 31, 2008

B-310741, Rocketplane Kistler, January 28, 2008, GAO

“The National Aeronautics and Space Administration could use a Space Act agreement under that agency’s “other transactions” authority, and was not required to use a procurement contract, for the development and demonstration of a space transportation system, where the principal purpose of the announcement was not to acquire goods or services for the direct benefit of the agency, but to stimulate a public purpose authorized by law.

The protest is denied.”

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