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After GAO Upholds Raytheon’s IFT Protest, CBP Reevaluating Proposals

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, July 15th, 2014

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this week said that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will reevaluate proposals it had received for a fixed surveillance tower system program after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) last week upheld a protest by Raytheon [RTN] challenging the contract award earlier this year to Israel’s Elbit Systems [ESLT] for the virtual fence project. Despite what seemed to have been a careful, deliberate competition and source-selection process managed by CBP leading up to the award…

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