Accenture Federal faces second challenge to its Energy IT contract

Accenture's U.S. federal subsidiary is facing one challenge to retain the recompete of a $3.5 billion Energy Department IT contract and a second from the Department of Government Efficiency, which apparently has the incumbent program in its sights.

New data from Deltek indicates DOGE has cancelled 10 task orders under the Chief Information Officer Business Operations Support Services pact, which the company won in 2018 at a then-$2 billion ceiling.

Some examples of services under the cancelled orders include IT support, cybersecurity strategy and operations, and cybersecurity for environmental management.

Energy uses the CBOSS BPA for enterprise IT and business support services. Since the original CBOSS award, Energy has raised the ceiling to $4 billion and obligated $2.1 billion in task order spend to-date, according to GovTribe data.

We identified seven of the 10 the cancelled task orders on the Wall of Receipts from DOGE, which claims savings of about $92.8 million. The largest chunk of that is a $35.1 million order from Energy's office of the chief information officer. The smallest was a $2.2 million geospatial science program support order

The department awarded the CBOSS 2.0 recompete to Accenture Federal Services in January. CBOSS 2.0 has a wider scope of services and larger ceiling at $3.5 billion.

Booz Allen Hamilton and Leidos filed protests over CBOSS 2.0 at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in late January. The protests led Energy to ask the court for a remand to take a corrective action.

The companies can reinstate their protests if they are unhappy with that corrective action.

Officials at Accenture Federal Services have not responded to a request for comment.