EADS lowered their bid by $3.4 billion from last time, and Boeing lowered their bid by about $7 billion... but Boeing only ended up with a $2 billion margin?
That means that when the competition was restarted as "price-first", if nothing had changed, EADS would have had the lower bid by ~ $1.6 billion.
Looks like the RFP was expected to still favor EADS to me.