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.
In its bid protest decision, GAO said: “We conclude that the agency’s proposed corrective action of reassessing the cutoff point for proposals to advance to phase 2 of the competition and making a new decision regarding the proposals that will advance to phase 2 grants the requested relief and renders the protest academic.”
The corrective action comes after offerors from across the federal contracting market raised concerns about the second phase award protest. In total, 117 contractors submitted complaints with GAO over the latest stage of the procurement… Read the full article here.
