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Perspecta Follows GD In Protesting Leidos’ NGEN-R SMIT Win, Work Paused

Wednesday, March 11th, 2020

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This week Perspecta filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) over Leidos’ [LDOS] win of the Navy’s Next Generation Enterprise Network Re-compete (NGEN-R) contract. According to the GAO docket, the protest was filed on March 9 and will be decided by June 17. This follows a similar protest by General Dynamics’ [GD] Information Technology subsidiary that field a protest with the GAO on March 4 over the SMIT contract (Defense Daily, March 5). A Navy spokesperson confirmed to…

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