Bang Galore
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As said, the pice was never the limiting factor. Saab for example could had made their offer with the EPE engine too if they wanted. That would had pushed the Gripen to much better flight performance and a TWR above 1 as required, but with the same downsides of increased costs that Boeing tried to avoid too. That's why THEY have not offered it, so why should we ask for a price then? Do you honestly think any vendor has limited it's offer to us and not has given the best possible technical proposal, to the most sensible price (according to them), that would had complied as much as possible to the RFP?
I'm not concerned with it was fair to the vendor, my concern is limited to the fact that we would have had a better understanding of the economics instead of now being in a position of debating blind. It is simply a case of us knowing how much extra we are paying for the additional capability. That alone would make sense. Without a cost-benefit calculation, all we are left with is whatever price the manufacturer quotes and discussing from there.