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Roger Wicker: “If last year's authority to implement the dual sole-source award strategy for the LCS program were amended to give the…”

On the recordMay 17, 2011
If last year's authority to implement the dual sole-source award strategy for the LCS program were amended to give the Navy the explicit authority to use EOQ purchases as part of the block-buy contracts that it awarded to the two LCS builders, would the Navy use this additional EOQ authority, and if so, how much might it reduce the cost of the 20 LCSs to be procured under these two contracts?
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

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Wicker asks about the potential cost reduction in LCS procurement with EOQ authority.

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