Big names miss out on $4.5B Justice contract, protests follow
By
Nick Wakeman
Several incumbents did not make the cut for the Justice Department's $4.5 billion ITSS-5 contract and some have filed protests to complain.
Several large business incumbents were not named as winners for the new iteration of the Justice Department's multi-billion-dollar IT services contract.
Awards for the large business piece of DOJ's IT Support Services 5 contract have been in the works for some time as the small business track with nine winners opened for business in mid-2018.
Large business winners were named just before our holiday break and include Ace Info Solutions (now part of Dovel Technologies), Booz Allen Hamilton, CACI International, General Dynamics IT and NTT Data.
Protests have been filed by Perspecta and MetroStar Systems. Perspecta inherited its spot on the contract through the legacy HP Enterprise Services business.
Other notable incumbents not on the list of winners include Accenture, IBM, NCI Information Systems and Northrop Grumman. Two other bidders -- Leidos and incumbent ManTech International -- lost protests at the Court of Federal Claims after they were eliminated during phase one of the competition.
Another incumbent IntelliDyne lost a protest at the Government Accountability Office in March when the company also objected to being eliminated from the competitive range.
Perspecta and MetroStar both filed their protests on Dec. 30. A decision from GAO is expected by April 8. Both companies argue that the evaluation process was flawed.
ITSS-5 has a $4.5 billion ceiling over up to 10 years with a five-year base and a five-year option period.
The contract has six functional areas: IT planning and architecture, program management office support, systems engineering and development, infrastructure support, IT security, and operations and maintenance.