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GAO REQUIRES PROOF AIR FORCE DEPARTED FROM ITS OWN CRITERIA BOEING CAN'T WIN TANKER APPEAL ON TECHNICALITIES.(Business)
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
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March 22, 2008
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Byline: ERIC ROSENBERGP-I Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON -- The Boeing Co.'s push to overturn a lucrative Air Force contract for aerial tankers awarded to an EADS consortium faces a high hurdle at the Government Accountability Office, the investigative branch of Congress, which is weighing Boeing's appeal.
The agency, which has until mid-June to rule on Boeing's complaint, doesn't overturn federal contracts for minor infractions by the government agency that awarded the contract in the first place.
Rather, the GAO looks for more fundamental mistakes. In the tanker case, that is likely to take the form of whether the Air Force gave European Aeronautic Defense and ...
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