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GAO Rejects General Dynamics’ Protest Of Amphibious Combat Vehicle Award

Pat Host

Tuesday, March 15th, 2016

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GAO Rejects General Dynamics’ Protest Of Amphibious Combat Vehicle Award

General Dynamics Land Systems' entry for the Amphibious Combat Vehicle competition.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Tuesday denied General Dynamics’ [GD] protest of the Marine Corps’ contract award to SAIC [SAIC] for the Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV).General Dynamics challenged, among other things, the Marine Corps’ evaluation of its proposal and the agency’s decision to select SAIC’s higher-rated, higher-priced proposal in a best-value procurement. General Dynamics’ proposal was lower-rated and lower-priced.GAO concluded that that the Marine Corps’ evaluation of the General Dynamics proposal was reasonable and consistent with the evaluation scheme…

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