Encore III, a controversial contract before the Defense Department began soliciting bids from industry to purchase up to $17.5 billion in IT services, received its strongest rebuke yet – this time from the Government Accountability Office.
The contract supports the department’s Joint Information Environment, a massive IT modernization project to globally connect the military services and defense agencies to supply “information on demand,” as the RFP states.
GAO announced last week it upheld pre-award bid protests from contractors CACI and Booz Allen Hamilton on grounds that the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) – the Pentagon’s IT arm – failed on two grounds “to provide a reasonable basis for comparing the cost of competing proposals.”
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