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Amazon win restarts CIA cloud contract

Although IBM plans to appeal, the judge's ruling in Amazon's favor means work on the $600 million CIA cloud contract can start immediately.

  • By Frank Konkel

Agencies say 'No mas' to wartime contracting reforms

The Defense and State departments and USAID have followed some recommendations of the Wartime Contracting Commission, but now say they don't want to do more. But some senators want to make the changes mandatory.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

GAO slaps VA for not using vets

VA erredin not setting aside a contract for a service-disabled, veteran-owned business.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

How to avoid a contract protest

As the number of protested contracts increase, here are some precautions to take to avoid this potentially costly delay or loss of a procurement.

  • By Bob Lohfeld

GAO upholds NikSoft's protest of ID management contract

The Justice Department did not properly evaluate pricing, past performance and organizational conflict of interest allegations in its award of a recent $844K contract, an audit concludes.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

GAO sets new policy on debarments, suspensions

Policy adopted on the heels of the Air Force's proposed debarment of Booz Allen's San Antonio office.

  • By Alysha Sideman
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5 win $900M anti-IED contract

Contractors will vie for task orders to support the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization in its battle against roadside bombs and other explosive devices.

  • By Alysha Sideman

Lockheed's $2B polar project under attack

Losing bidder challenges large arctic contract award with a formal GAO protest.

  • By Alysha Sideman

Should contractors get blamed for counterfeit parts?

Counterfeit parts, mostly made in China, have found their way into the U.S. military's supply chain, and now members of the Senate Armed Services Committee want to hold contractors more responsible.

  • By Amber Corrin

GSA ponders reopening e-mail contract

Agency is studying GAO's decision to support the protests filed by two losing bidders.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

IBM files protest over VA's $12B T4 contract

The Veterans Affairs' $12 billion T4 contract for IT infrastructure transformation has attracted 10 protests, including the most recent from IBM Corp.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Northrop Grumman partners to pursue GSA travel contract

Northrop Grumman Corp. has signed on as a subcontractor to CWTSatoTravel to compete for the end-to-end travel and expense management systems of the General Services Administration's E-Gov Travel Services 2 contract.

  • By David Hubler

GAO will finish its bid protest work

The Defense Information Systems Agency contended that GAO's authority to review certain bid protests ended on May 27, leaving Technatomy’s protest without merit.

  • By Matthew Weigelt
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Are inventories of service contracts worthless?

Some agency officials worry that their inventories of service contracts will never be used for anything meaningful.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

GAO upholds Solers protest against DISA award to Booz Allen

Booz Allen's contingency language in its proposal for a DISA contract got it into trouble with the fixed-price requirements, GAO said in a new decision.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

GAO protests Booz Allen bid

The Government Accountability Office want to yank a $25 million task order from the large contractor.

  • By Washington Technology staff

GAO upholds protest against GSA eGov Travel solicitation

The Government Accountability Office upheld a protest against the GSA's wording of a Statement of Work for an electronic travel management contract.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Qwest bid protest dismissed, but GAO says it might have merit

The Government Accountability Office issued a decision in a bid protest by Qwest filed against an award by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services under the Networx contract.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

$20B in IT projects need more oversight

The federal government must strengthen its oversight of IT spending, a Government Accountability Office official said.

  • By Alyah Khan

SBInet-like system in the works for border surveillance

The Homeland Security Department canceled the SBInet border surveillance system two months ago, but SBInet-like capabilities will live on in the new system proposed for some parts of the border, a GAO official says.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

GAO freshens up its list of high-risk programs

The Government Accountability Office today updated its list of high-risk government programs, removing some programs and adding a new one.

  • By Alyah Khan