SpaceX does their own splashdown recovery with their own fleet of ships. The government isn’t responsible except for the USCG enforcement of an exclusion zone.
Doesn’t matter. USCG isn’t free, and those SpaceX vessels and crew have to be in the bid, which can be underbid at first.
About the only thing I see in SpaceX favor is Atlas V uses Russian rockets. Actually SpaceX does too, but in an indirect way. Russia builds very good rocket.