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.
In 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.
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