The Comptroller General’s Office rejected arguments from Unisys Corp. on May 7, 2012 that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tricked it into overbidding on a $70 million contract to combine the agency’s legacy information technology systems.

Unisys argued CDC officials misled the company into raising its proposed price tag from $61 million to $86 million to remedy staffing insufficiencies the agency pointed out in its original bid, according to the Comptroller General’s decision.

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