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To: Daniel G. DeBusschere who wrote (1265)	12/10/1998 11:13:00 AM
From: bcroyle	Respond to of 1841

Agreed. Main reason in my view that Lockheed Martin was prime is that the prime contractor had to eat all the costs for the procurement (which EDS was not willing to do) and that Martin had some stoke with IRS through previous work. I suspect they also had a more favorable labor-rate structure established in their federal sector (one has to establish pre-approved labor categories, and associate with each category the direct labor portion, approved overhead items, and approved g and a items -- bidding then becomes a juggling act of how many hour of which labor type you are willing to put on the job, etc.).