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March 5, 2018 By AMK

GAO sustains protest of $771 million Defense Intelligence Agency contract

The Defense Intelligence Agency should consider re-competing a $771 million information technology task order it awarded to a company called The Buffalo Group last year, a government auditor said Feb. 21, 2018.

The contracting giant ManTech Advanced Systems International protested the award in October, saying the defense agency didn’t adequately explain its decision.

ManTech’s bid came in higher than The Buffalo Group’s at about $846 million but the company scored better on other factors. Notably, the agency “determined that ManTech’s risk of unsuccessful performance was low and that The Buffalo Group’s risk of unsuccessful performance was moderate,” the decision from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) states.

The defense agency should have explained in greater detail why the lower price of The Buffalo Group bid was more important than ManTech’s technical superiority, GAO said.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2018/02/gao-sustains-protest-771-million-defense-intelligence-agency-contract/146147/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: award protest, DIA, evaluation criteria, GAO, IDIQ, proposal evaluation

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