Did you get the sense that it was because there were other interests? You won it in any case; you demonstrated your expertise and your professionalism. In spite of everything, not only was the competition reopened, but you discovered that there had been a third. If you had bid in that third competition with the figures... The government relied on your own figures. It's as though there was no commercial balance. That means that it used exactly the same figures as you had submitted and as a result of which you won.
Don't you find that odd? Don't you think the criteria were manipulated?