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http://soldiersystems.net/2014/03/1...garding-us-army-efforts-adopt-new-camouflage/
"...- Continuing its efforts to reduce costs to the Army and in an attempt to eliminate the Army's concerns that MultiCam was more expensive than UCP, Crye submitted several formal proposals which proved that the Army could procure MultiCam gear at prices within 1% of UCP gear. Crye's proposals additionally showed that this could be accomplished with no upfront cost to the Army....The Army rejected all of Crye's proposals and did not present any counter proposals, effectively saying that a proven increase in Soldier survivability was not worth a price difference of less than 1%...."
"...- Continuing its efforts to reduce costs to the Army and in an attempt to eliminate the Army's concerns that MultiCam was more expensive than UCP, Crye submitted several formal proposals which proved that the Army could procure MultiCam gear at prices within 1% of UCP gear. Crye's proposals additionally showed that this could be accomplished with no upfront cost to the Army....The Army rejected all of Crye's proposals and did not present any counter proposals, effectively saying that a proven increase in Soldier survivability was not worth a price difference of less than 1%...."