After a protest sank its first attempt, the Defense Information Systems Agency says two dozen companies responded to a market research notice and only Leidos could do the job.
The service branch wants to incorporate commercial supply chain practices into its IT product delivery function that must support a user base of 1 million personnel.
The watchdog agency five remaining challenges, including a set of four that questioned the self-scoring process and consolidation of requirements for the professional services contract.
The Army tested an artificial intelligence tool on the $450 million competition, and its outputs reached evaluators and the contracting officer. The government did not provide many details on that until the judge pressed.
The five-year task order covers logistics, sustainment and maintenance of Army command, control, communications, cyber, ISR and medical systems at 190 locations worldwide.
The Defense Health Agency wants industry's ideas for working with clinical, administrative, operational, financial, scheduling, encounter, assessment, document and analytics data.
Air Force officials are setting up the multiple-award GUARD contract to aid the transition of the security systems to a modular open systems architecture.
Turning Point Global Solutions wins its challenge to the evaluation, but the Government Accountability Office rejects conflict-of-interest claims against the incumbent.
Both proposed rules now accept comments through Nov. 20, as the Small Business Administration's Advocacy office projects a fraction of the 115,000 new small businesses the agency originally estimated.
