Three more protesters drop out of T4NG2 case
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By
Nick Wakeman
But 22 protests remain open in federal court as a Monday deadline looms for decisions on whether or not to continue their arguments regarding the $60 billion Veterans Affairs Department IT vehicle.
More companies have dropped out of the T4NG2 protest at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, but close to two dozen still remain.
The judge overseeing the case previously set a July 14 (Monday) deadline for companies left in the case to decide whether they want to continue their protests of the $60 billion Veterans Affairs Department IT contract vehicle.
DecisionPoint-Agile joint venture and Kahu, a Leidos and Pueo Business Solutions JV, dropped out of the case on Thursday after asking the judge to dismiss their protests.
In late June, Tribility told the court it would drop its appeal of the judge’s earlier decision to dismiss the company’s protest.
Most of the protests involve how VA used a self-scoring methodology to pick winners and losers for the Transformation Twenty-one Total Technology Next Generation 2 vehicle.
We are now down to 22 open protests before the court. If those companies do not file amended complaints by Monday, the court will dismiss their protests.
VA has agreed to not award task orders under T4NG2 until March 2026, giving plenty of time for any continuing protests to be resolved.
A total of 31 companies filed protests to the court regarding T4NG2, but only three of them have been added to the contract: Taurian Consulting, Technatomy, and Peregrin.
In addition to VA’s decision to delay task orders, a second indicator that the protests may continue beyond Monday is that both the protesters and defendant-intervenors involved in the case have requested access to protected materials.
Defendant-intervenors are companies that hold positions on the contract and have joined VA in opposing the protests.
We will provide an update on who is staying in and dropping out after Monday’s deadline.