Thanks North! I think you prove your thesis on the B-220's price scheme very well.
A couple of supporting thoughts:
1. IMSC knew that other bids would be submitted but would also be "undesired" due to the nuclear element in those said Smith's and Morpho ETDs.
2. My guess ( and its certainly conjecture) is that Morpho submitted a bid whose price was, lets guess, $36,000/unit. And IMSC submitted a bid for the B-220 whose price was NORTH of $36,000/unit.
3. Morpho's protest is based on two "prongs": a- Morpho's price/unit is lower than IMSC's winning bid per unit and b- Morpho's nuclear containing ETD units are on the line at Checkpoint and in use for cargo while currently containing nuclear material.
My last guess: Attention Morpho, when the TSA says: nuclear containing ETD units are undesired, that means they don't want them even if the price was $1/unit. Protest Quashed.
Side note to Ted-- my take, IMSC would never undercut their current list pricing on a QS-150 for a clearly superior B-220. That would make ZERO sense. IE we sell QS-150 for $28,000 list and a B-220 for $46,000 list but on this bid we'll sell you a B-220 for less than a QS-150???
But all of this will be pointed to but NOT spelled out ( confidential pricing info cannot and should not be made public, which I think the TSA has acknowledged in their documentation, this is SOP, in my opinion).
