Air Force admits oversight in group of $12.5B contract awards
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Nick Wakeman
Two companies were erroneously omitted from the list of winners for the network modernization program.
In a bit of a “my bad” moment, the Air Force admitted this week that it left two winners off of the list of primes for the $12.5 billion Base Infrastructure Modernization program.
The Air Force announced the winners on Aug. 16 and we reported on it the following Monday. BIM is a vehicle focused on upgrading networks at bases around the world.
Fast forward to Wednesday, and the Defense Department has stated a short correction that Technica Corp. and TekSynap Corp. were not included in the original announcement.
Technica had already filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office, challenging the Air Force’s evaluation that their proposal was not technically acceptable.
With the correction, it sounds like the company was right.
The protest is still listed as active on the GAO docket, so it seems like the Air Force still needs to notify GAO. We expected the protest to be dismissed in the coming days.
We will continue to track this procurement because while the Air Force made 25 awards, they received 47 proposals. That leaves 22 disappointed bidders who potentially could file protests.