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NCI Information Systems, Inc. (NCI), of Reston, Virginia, requests reconsideration of our decision in NCI Info. Sys., Inc., B-419322, B-419322.2, Jan. 12, 2021, 2021 CPD ¶ 23, denying in part and dismissing in part its protest challenging the issuance of a task order to Salient CRGT, under request for proposals (RFP) 70SBUR20R00000001. The Department of Homeland Security, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued the task order for information technology (IT) deploymen...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: There are three forums that hear bid protests – the agency conducting the procurement, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (COFC). Click here for further information on where to file. Here we will discuss agency level bid protests, some procedural considerations, and a few of the advantages of using this forum over the GAO or the COFC. Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig’s team of bid protest ...

Sierra Nevada protests US Air Forces planned award to Sikorsky for HH-60W upgrades 06 May 2021 by Pat Host Sierra Nevada Corp (SNC) is contesting the US Air Force’s (USAF’s) intention to sole-source a USD980 million contract to Sikorsky for HH-60W Jolly Green II combat search and rescue (CSAR) helicopter upgrades. The bid protest, filed in the US Court of Federal Claims, alleges that the USAF’s intent to sole-source this contract violated the Competition in Contracting Act (CICA), which r...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Welcome to Jenner & Blocks Government Contracts Legal Round-Up, a biweekly update on important government contracts developments. This update summarizes key developments for government contracts legal, compliance, contracting, and business executives. EXECUTIVE ACTIONS This order sets out a policy to ensure resilience in US supply chains through robust US manufacturing capacity and the availa...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Last week the Army awarded Microsoft the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) contract, a potentially $21 billion undertaking by the Army to develop next-generation night vision and “situational awareness capabilities” in a Heads Up Display. Unlike Microsoft’s last multi-billion dollar contract award, the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), which is still pending before the Court of Federal Claims more than a...

File:  B-419300 Date:  December 16, 2020 David S. Gallacher, Esq., Emily S. Theriault, Esq., and Adam A. Bartolanzo, Esq., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, for the protester. Elizabeth Connally, Esq., Connally Law, PLLC; John E. McCarthy, Jr., Esq., and Robert J. Sneckenberg, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for Superior Optical Labs, Inc., the intervenor. Natica Chapman Neely, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq...

FedRAMP FedRAMP moderate risk impact level certification for cloud storage platform.   Id. at 3. Thirteen firms responded to the October 2019 RFI.  AR, Tab 27, Market Research Report at 20.  The protester’s RFI response included a claimed capability narrative for FedRAMP that indicated that its cloud-hosted storage solution was built to meet FedRAMP requirements and was undergoing FedRAMP assessment and audit.  AR, Tab 12, Panasonic RFI Response at 5.  Between November 2019 an...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has shown a keen interest in procuring certain prototype, research, and production requirements using the Other Transaction Authority (OTA) at 10 U.S.C. § 2371b. The advantage of OTAs is that they are highly flexible, meaning they can usually avoid the burden of complex government regulatory requirements included in the Federal Acquisition Reg...

Elan Taylor, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Young H. Cho, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Request for recommendation that protest costs be reimbursed after our Office dismissed a protest as premature in light of an ongoing investigation into the allegation of an organizational conflict of interest is dismissed where the agency did not take corrective action in the prior protest.  DECISIO...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Historically, bid protests were filed in the federal district courts. Under the Administrative Procedures Act, 5 U.S.C. § 702, federal district courts reviewed challenges to agency procurement decisions. Known as the “Scanwell Doctrine,” this federal district court authority was named after the 1970 D.C. Circuit Court decision in Scanwell Lab., Inc. v. Schaffer, 424 F.2d 859 (D.C. Cir. 1970). If you are filing a bid protest, it ...