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January 20, 2017 By AMK

GAO denies Alliant 2 protests, evaluations to come

The Government Accountability Office has dismissed the pre-award bid protests of several companies that took issue with solicitation language in Alliant 2, the $50 billion IT contracting vehicle the General Services Administration put out to bid in June 2016.

The protesting companies — Buchanan & Edwards, Inc., Enterprise Information Services, Inc., InfoReliance Corp. and Sevatec, Inc. — took issue with Alliant 2’s evaluation scheme and claimed the agency’s intent to award tasks orders to 60 contractors was “insufficient.”

The protests essentially put GSA’s innovative, data-driven, objective approach aimed to factor past performance on trial.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2017/01/gao-denies-alliant-2-protests-evaluations-come/134594

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: Alliant, award protest, bid protest, evaluation criteria, GAO, GSA, past performance

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