18 companies to continue protests over $60B VA IT contract
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By
Nick Wakeman
A new round in the legal battle over T4NG2 starts to take shape after a deadline passes for protesters to decide whether to continue or drop out.
The judge’s deadline for amended complaints came and went on Monday, but a flood of companies have filed motions to continue their protests over the Veterans Affairs Department's T4NG2 contract vehicle.
What started as a trickle early in the day with just two companies filing, turned into torrent as 18 companies in total have told the court they want to keep fighting for a place on the $60 billion Transformation Twenty-one Total Technology Next Generation 2 vehicle.
All of the amended complaints and motions for judgment filed at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims remain sealed. But they will have to argue something VA did not address in its corrective action that placed three new companies on the list of winners.
VA has until Aug. 11 to respond to the new flurry of protests. The department has already said it will not begin awarding task orders under T4NG2 until March 2026, giving the court time to resolve the protests.
Most of the protests involve how VA used a self-scoring methodology to pick winners and losers for the agency’s primary IT vehicle.
The 18 companies continuing their protests are:
- Arrow ARC
- Clearview Technologies
- Freedom Technology Partners
- General Dynamics IT
- Innovenue
- Insignia Technology Services
- Intellect joint venture
- King Street Technology Partners
- Mission Training
- Omni Cares
- Pinnacle Computer Technology
- Systemic Innovations
- T4NG2 JV
- Thunderyard-Liberty JV II
- Tista Science and Technology Corp.
- Vector Innovative Solutions
- Veterans First Technologies
- Vision Tech Group
These companies asked the the court to dismiss their protests:
- CSE VETS LLC
- DecisionPoint Agile JV
- Government Health Care Solutions
- InteVets LLC
- Kahu
- VA Technology Innovation
The court has dismissed their protests “without prejudice,” which means that theoretically they could refile their protests at a later date. But any new protests would have to address why they withdrew, which makes resurrecting their protests a long shot.
A total of 31 companies were part of the first round of protests at the court, but only three prevailed and convinced VA to add them to the list of 30 winners.
Those three are Taurian Consulting, Technatomy and Peregrin.