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GAO dismisses bid protests filed over $50B IT services procurement

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GAO dismisses bid protests filed over $50B IT services procurement

Photo courtesy of NIH. Article by John Hewitt Jones. FedScoop – November 30, 2022.

The Government Accountability Office has dismissed 117 bid protests filed over the $50 billion CIO-SP4 IT services procurement, after the awarding agency agreed to take corrective action. The National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center is set to reassess a points-based scoring system used to assess prior performance that attracted widespread criticism from contractors. As part of the corrective action NITAAC will also re-adjudicate which offerors progress to the second phase of the procurement. […]