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Pentagon

GAO Rejects BAE Protest On Staffing Contract For JIEDDO

Defense Daily Staff

Monday, November 10th, 2014

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GAO Rejects BAE Protest On Staffing Contract For JIEDDO

The Government Accountability Office said Monday it had rejected a BAE Systems protest challenging a task order award for technical and staff services for the Pentagon’s outfit designed to defeat improvised explosive devices. Earlier this year, the General Services Administration issued the task order to the Wexford Group International, a subsidiary of CACI International [CACI], to provide technical and staff services support to the Pentagon’s Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, or JIEDDO. BAE alleged that its proposal was improperly…

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