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Commercialization

COTS Wars?

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
January 2, 2009

NASA May Face Protest Over Recent Commercial-Cargo Contract, Wall Street Journal

“A NASA source selection panel ranked Orbital’s overall proposal and its projected costs less favorably than bids submitted by the PlanetSpace team and a third bidder, Space Exploration Technologies Inc, according to one person familiar with the details.But William Gerstenmaier, the senior agency official who made the decision, opted to go against those rankings, according to people familiar with the details. Mr. Gerstenmaier, for example, disregarded the management strengths the selection board said stemmed from the participation of Boeing and Lockheed. Instead, NASA in theend cited PlanetSpace’s “complete lack of experience as a prime contractor,” according to documents provided to the bidders.”

COTS Commercial Cargo Winners: Orbital and SpaceX

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