WXOW News 19 La Crosse, WI – News, Weather and Sports |Oshkosh Corporation may lose billion dollar military contracts.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WKOW) -- The General Accounting Office today ruled that the U.S. Army unfairly granted the Oshkosh Corporation contracts worth billions of dollars to build armored trucks for the war in Afghanistan.
Oshkosh Corp. has received several contracts over the past year from the military. Two of its competitors for those contracts -- Navistar and BAE -- argued that the military made the decision based solely on cost and not on how qualified the company was to provide a well-made product.
The GAO said today, "Our Office sustained, or upheld, the protests today. Our review of the record led us to conclude that the Army's evaluation was flawed with regard to the evaluation of Oshkosh's proposal under the capability evaluation factor, and the evaluation of Navistar's past performance. We therefore sustained Navistar's and BAE's protests. We also denied a number of Navistar's and BAE's challenges to the award to Oshkosh, including challenges to the evaluation of Oshkosh's price."
The GAO ordered the Army to go through the bidding process again. Oshkosh could still win on review. But, it's competition has much more experience building military vehicles which could lead to a decision in their favor.
