General Dynamics, SAIC continue battle over $95M contract
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Nick Wakeman
Though a relatively small contract dollar-wise, both companies want to provide high-performance computing support to the Food and Drug Administration.
You wouldn’t think that a $95 million contract was worth fighting over when the companies involved count their annual revenue in the multibillion-dollar territory.
But General Dynamics IT is back with a second protest over a $95 million Food and Drug Administration blanket purchase agreement for research and computing support.
Science Applications International Corp. first won the contract in October 2022, then GDIT quickly filed a protest.
The FDA decided to take a corrective action in November and rethink that award decision. SAIC again won the contract and GDIT filed a new protest on April 10.
GDIT is challenging the FDA's evaluation of SAIC’s price, claiming the agency didn't calculate it correctly.
A decision from the Government Accountability Office is due by July 19.
The Advanced Research and Scientific Computing Support Services BPA will support FDA researchers and scientists who need high-performance computing and cloud-based services around large datasets. Those efforts include artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, analytical tools and advanced computing.