ManTech loses effort to change evaluation criteria for FBI contract
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Nick Wakeman
The company's challenge to the price evaluation plan for a blanket purchase agreement competition gets rejected.
ManTech International has lost its attempt to convince the FBI to further change how the agency evaluates proposals for a blanket purchase agreement for a range of services.
The FBI did make some modifications after ManTech, Intellibridge and BAQ Solutions all protested in March after they were eliminated from the competition for a set of BPAs. The FBI took its corrective action in late April, but ManTech followed up with a new protest on May 12.
The Government Accountability Office denied that second protest of ManTech's on Monday. Intellibridge and BAQ Solutions did not file new protests.
In ManTech’s second protest, it challenged amendments to the FBI’s price evaluation methodology. But GAO rejected that challenge.
With the protest resolved, the FBI can move forward with awards. The combined ceiling value for the BPAs has not been disclosed.
The FBI plans to award five BPAs in each of five service areas: Law enforcement support, biometric services, National Crime Information Center support, shared services, and operational programs. Bidders can pursue more than one service area, but only win for one.