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September 5, 2013 By AMK

AWS disputes GAO bid protest favoring IBM in CIA cloud computing contract

Amazon Web Services is challenging in the Court of Federal Claims the  Government Accountability Office’s June bid  protest decision overturning its win of a CIA cloud services contract worth  up to $600 million over 4 years, with additional options.

In a redacted complaint unsealed Aug. 20, Amazon attorneys from the firm of Arnold & Porter argue  that the GAO arrived at the wrong conclusions surrounding two points from a  protest brought by IBM, which lost out to AWS on the CIA contract. Following the  GAO’s decision, the CIA reopened discussions with offerors and called for new  proposals due by Aug. 16; Amazon first filed its complaint on July 24.

In its decision, the GAO said IBM was correct that the CIA misevaluated a  part of its pricing proposal. In its suit, AWS accuses IBM of “seeking to  exploit a perceived ambiguity in the instructions” and the GAO of jettisoning  established law to recharacterize IBM’s protest as a matter of price evaluation  rather than the evaluation criteria.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com/story/aws-disputes-gao-bid-protest-favoring-ibm-cia-cloud-computing-contract/2013-08-28

 

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: bid protest, CIA, Court of Federal Claims, fixed price, GAO, proposal evaluation, timeliness

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