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GAO Denies Lockheed Martin Protest Of NIISSC Contract Award

Tuesday, November 10th, 2015

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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Oct. 23 denied Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] protest of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Cheyenne Mountain Complex-Integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment (NCMC-ITW/AA) and Space Support Contract (NISSC) award to Raytheon [RTN].Lockheed Martin argued that the agency failed to conduct meaningful discussions that treated offerors equally. GAO denied this, saying the Air Force led offerors into the general areas of their proposals requiring amplification or revision and tailored the discussions to concerns specific to each offeror’s technical proposal.Lockheed Martin…

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