Originally Posted by
SplineDrive
Speed isn’t the only metric to get credit on...
Understood. I just used speed as an example of how these two contractors were looking at it differently. Bell going for low cost by not trying to do 205 knots for the entire flight. The basic question is overall how much credit will be given for how much performance. A bid could have better performance promises than another less expensive one, but if the extra credit given is not enough to overcome the difference in cost, it'll still lose. We've seen this happen in contracts awarded of the last decade or so.