The Government Accountability Office has dismissed a protest filed by Health Net Federal Services against the Defense Health Agency’s decision to award the managed care support services contract in the western U.S. region to TriWest Healthcare Alliance as part of the Tricare program, Military Times reported Wednesday. In December, TriWest secured ...
The Government Accountability Office has moved to sustain 28 bid protests filed against the National Institutes of Health’s potential 10-year, $50 billion Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners recompete contract for information technology products and services. Those sustained protests were filed by 27 vendors whose offers were eliminat...
The Government Accountability Office has decided to sustain 98 bid protests filed against the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center’s potential 10-year, $50 billion Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners follow-on contract for IT products and services. CIO-SP4 is a governmentwide acqui...
The Government Accountability Office has dismissed a protest filed by Oshkosh’s (NYSE: OSK) defense arm to challenge the U.S. Army’s contract award decision over the follow-on Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program, Defense News reported Monday. In February, AM General, a portfolio company of private equity firm KPS Capital Partners, won a pot...
The Government Accountability Office has dismissed a protest filed by Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary over the U.S. Army’s award of the potential $7.1 billion Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft development contract to Textron’s (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary. “In denying the protest, GAO concluded that the Army reasonably eval...
Oshkosh’s (NYSE: OSK) defense arm has filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office challenging the U.S. Army’s contract award decision over the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program. Oshkosh Defense said its move prompted an independent assessment of the decision by GAO on Monday. “After participating in the government’s post-awa...
The Government Accountability Office has urged the Department of Defense to come up with a systematic approach to monitor other transaction agreement award dollars each consortium receives. GAO found that the lack of such an approach keeps DOD from collecting data on OTA obligations each consortium has secured, according to a report published Tuesda...
A Government Accountability Office report shows that the federal government spent approximately $637.1 billion on contracts in fiscal year 2021 with defense agencies accounting for about $386.9 billion in FY 2021 contract obligations. Federal spending on contracts in FY 2021 reflects a drop of $54 billion from the previous fiscal year and civilian a...
The Government Accountability Office has recommended that the Internal Revenue Service and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network reassess their money service business registration requirements for virtual currency exchanges and virtual currency kiosk operators and initiate measures, such as requiring those operators to routinely provide information o...
The Government Accountability Office decided to sustain Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) protest of a potential $10 billion cloud computing contract that the National Security Agency awarded to Amazon Web Services in July, Nextgov reported Friday. “GAO found certain aspects of the agency’s evaluation to be unreasonable and, in light thereof, recomme...
