State Department takes third look at Alpha Omega’s $10B Evolve protest
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Nick Wakeman
The department takes another corrective action after the contractor challenges its exclusion from the enterprise IT contract.
The State Department is working on another corrective action as it tries to resolve protest issues involving its $10 billion Evolve contract for enterprise IT services.
Alpha Omega Integration filed its first protest in July after the State Department made the first set of awards. The company has been challenging its exclusion from the group of large business winners.
In August, the State Department said it would re-evaluate the company’s proposal. But then for a second time, the State did not make an award to Alpha Omega.
The company filed another protest on Jan. 5. The Government Accountability Office was set to make a ruling by April 15, but the State Department has since decided to again re-evaluate Alpha Omega’s proposal.
Unfortunately, delays are nothing new for Evolve. The final solicitation was released in December 2022. Evolve has five functional areas and up to 35 awards. The contract is a consolidation of 11 existing contracts.
Phase one proposals were in February 2023, then the second-phase bids in October 2023. Companies could bid on one or all of the function areas that include application development, network and telecommunications, and cloud computing and data services.
Protests followed as awards came out in the different categories. But it now appears Alpha Omega’s objections are the last to be resolved.