The U.S. Government* isn&#x27;t allowed to say &quot;we want to spend this much money for this thing&quot; they can only say &quot;we want this thing&quot; and then take the &quot;best&quot; offer they get, a fact known by all the companies bidding, and by all the companies I mean the one company that has jumped through all the legal hoops necessary to allow them to bid.<p>*I know UC is British and while I suspect they have similar constraints I won&#x27;t swear to it.