FBI pulls back call center award to ECS Federal

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The law enforcement agency will rethink its decision and didn't take long to determine it would do so.
Well, that didn’t take long.
General Dynamics IT filed a protest at the end of April and by mid-May, the FBI agreed there were some issues with its decision to award ECS Federal a $45.4 million call center services contract.
The FBI pulled back the award so quickly that it never filed a response with the Government Accountability Office. Responses are due 30 days after a protest is filed, and the FBI pulled the award on May 18.
The agency will reassess its evaluation and make a new award decision.
GDIT is the incumbent on the contract, which provides around the clock support at the FBI's Enterprise Operations Center.
The center handles between 1,200 and 2,000 calls a day. The contract is valued at $45.4 million.
The contract was awarded under the GSA Schedule and has three tiers of services -- service desk support, network operations, systems and applications and a solver group.
Problems that can't be resolved quickly go to the solver group.
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