While DeJoy told lawmakers electric vehicles will be more expensive to purchase than those that run on fossil fuels, and will require additional spending to build charging stations, Workhorse said the Postal Service’s private-sector competitors are “aggressively moving toward all-electric, zero-emissions fleets” to save money. USPS makes up more than a third of the total federal fleet. President Joe Biden, setting an ambitious goal in the first month of his administration, signed an executive order directing all agencies, including the Postal Service, to move the entire federal vehicle fleet to electric and zero-emission vehicles. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy initially told Congress that only 10% of its new fleet would be electric vehicles, but later told lawmakers that figure was “a floor – not a ceiling – based upon our current financial situation.” Democrats in Congress have panned the contract award over a lack of consideration for electric vehicles. The bid protest, first reported by Reuters, only adds to the scrutiny on the 10-year contract award to produce up to 165,000 delivery vehicles for USPS. The vendor also claims the USPS, in its contract award, agreed to pay Oshkosh $482 million to finish developing its vehicle concept before beginning production. “This was especially puzzling given that Oshkosh has never previously produced a last-mile delivery vehicle, much less an electric one,” Workhorse wrote in the complaint. Randy Hayes, public sector at VAST Federal, provides an industry perspective. Insight by VAST Federal: Tom Sasala, chief data officer with the Department of the Navy, discusses data management strategy and AI's role in cybersecurity. Workhorse also alleges Oshkosh Defense, the USPS vehicle award recipient, submitted a prototype vehicle “entirely different” than the one selected for production, and that the winning design from Oshkosh “skipped the prototype phase altogether.” However, Workhorse, in its bid protest over the contract award, said USPS “put its thumb on the scale against Workhorse” and took their prototype out of consideration over a “safety incident” caused by a USPS test track driver’s error. However, Workhorse, in its bid protest over the contract award, said. Court of Federal Claims, said it spent six years and more than $6 million designing a prototype next-gen delivery vehicle for the Postal Service. The electric vehicle company Workhorse Group, in an unsealed complaint before the U.S. A company on the shortlist to build the Postal Service’s next-generation delivery vehicle said it was unfairly disqualified from consideration in the more than $3 billion contract.
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