Those minor little issues apart....
Indeed! Because NO ONE, not Boeing and not the government, could have predicted that those issues would crop up based on the content of the proposal. But the content of the proposal was sufficient to evaluate if a company was "low balling" a bid to win the contract and drive out competition. Something like that happened recently in the B-21 bid process. EVERY contract proposal was a "low ball" bid billions under the government estimate. So EVERY contractor team provided additional cost and pricing data to justify their bid price. NorthropGrumman significantly underbid Boeing/Lockheed and won. And then won the protest from Boeing/Lockheed.