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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released the full decisions denying two protests of Leidos’ [LDOS] win of the Navy Next Generation Enterprise Network Re-compete (NGEN-R) Service Management, Integration and Transportation (SMIT) contract.
The full decisions were released on July 14, but the GAO first released the outcome for both in June. First it denied the protest from General Dynamics Information Technology [GD] (Defense Daily, June 12).
Then a week later it denied the protest of fellow competitor Perspecta (Defense Daily, June 18).
Leidos won the NGEN-R SMIT contract in February. It runs for five years through 2025 and includes three one-year option periods that would extend it to August 2028 and reach the full $7.7 billion value (Defense Daily, Feb. 6).
The Navy identified three deficiencies in GD’s proposal under the network operations subfactor and determined the proposal did not meet solicitation requirements., rating GD’s proposal as unacceptable. Since it was rated unacceptable, GD’s offer was not included n the Navy’s best-value tradeoff analysis.
GAO explained that GD challenged the Navy’s conduct of discussions, specifically arguing revision discussions were not meaningful because the Navy did not tell GD of its concerns related to an incorrect assumption in their initial proposal. The company also contended discussions were misleading and claimed it would have revised its proposals to resolve Navy concerns if it was identified.
“While our decision does not address every argument raised, we have considered all of GDIT’s allegations, and based on our review of the record, we fi ..
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