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Cyber

GAO Denies Pre-Award Protests Against GSA Alliant IT Contract Vehicle

Wednesday, January 18th, 2017

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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) denied four companies’ protest to the General Services Administration (GSA) new source selection methodology and number of contractors to be awarded for information technology (IT) services.GSA designed the Alliant 2 procurement to establish multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts where fixed-price, cost reimbursement, time-and-materials, and labor-hour task orders could be issues for a large range of information technology services. The Request for Proposal (RFP) provides for a 5-year base period and one 5-year option period, with a…

Army

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Army

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