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January 2, 2015 By AMK

Navy’s $2.5 billion plan for shipboard networks hits snag after GAO partially upholds protest

The Government Accountability Office has partially sustained a bid protest filed by contractor CGI Federal over a $2.5 billion set of U.S. Navy contracts. GAO’s ruling could further delay Navy’s plans to upgrade the nation’s surface warship fleet.

Navy logoIn August, the Navy awarded the contracts to five companies – BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services, General Dynamics C4 Systems, Global Technical Systems, Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. and Serco, Inc. However, work ceased Sept. 2 when losing bidders CGI Federal and DRS Laurel Technologies protested the decision.

GAO entirely denied DRS Laurel Technologies’ protest over the Navy’s Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services — or CANES — system and portions of CGI Federal’s protest.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.nextgov.com/defense/2014/12/navys-25b-plan-shipboard-networks-hits-snag-after-gao-partially-uphold-protest/101766/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: bid protest, GAO, Navy, protest

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