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Looks like another Orion.
I'd recommend that NASA establish the basic requirements and back off on management of any development. Let the commercial providers compete and whichever can come up with the system that meets the requirements first takes a prize sufficiently rich enough to get them interested. Second and third place winners will get lesser prizes. Let Boeing, Lockheed, Space-X and whoever else is interested compete. Lockheed has a head start both in terms of money from NASA over the last 4 years and maybe in schedule (I am not sure that NASA didn't do as much harm as good). SO NASA should continue towards cancellation of the Orion contract as it stands.
Let NASA do the development of the new systems, capabilities and technologies.
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This may be an entirely random comment, but when I first saw this video, something occured to me: Thanks to their involvement with Bigelow and ULA, Boeing can actually claim to offer a complete LEO HSF package - Capsule, LV (Delta-IV) and space station. If they enter into an alliance with Lockheed and bring Atlas-V and Centaur heritage technology into the game, they could quite possibly completely wipe the floor with NASA and SpaceX and beat them bothto lunar orbit.
Marc's note: Bigelow is a customer of SpaceX in so far as launching the first modules of their space station.