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Morpho Detection Protests TSA Award to Implant Sciences

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014

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Morpho Detection, Inc., a United States-based business unit of France’s Safran Group, on Nov. 25 filed a protest challenging the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) potential $162 million contract earlier in the month with Implant Sciences Corp. [IMSC] to provide the agency with explosive trace detectors for aviation security screening. Implant Sciences said on Nov. 26 it had been informed of the bid protest with the Government Accountability Office, which expects to rule on the matter by March 5, 2015. “We…

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