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HP Criticizes Navy’s Draft RFP For NGEN

Defense Daily Staff

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

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The Navy’s draft request for proposals (RFP) issued this week for the successor program to the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) leaves little flexibility for the service to develop the best possible secure IT network, according to Hewlett-Packard [HPQ]. HP, which is the incumbent contractor for NMCI and intends to compete for the Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN) services contracts, pointed to the aspect of the draft that calls for the award to be given to the lowest-cost bidder that…

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