State's $10B Evolve contract faces renewed protest from Alpha Omega
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Nick Wakeman
Alpha Omega's challenge now targets the evaluation after it again did not win a spot on the massive enterprise IT vehicle.
The State Department’s $10 billion enterprise IT contract continues to face challenges after Alpha Omega has filed new objections after it was left out of the pool of winners.
The company has been competing for a large business award, but has twice not been selected for the contract.
Alpha Omega filed its first protest on July 10, but the Government Accountability Office dismissed that challenge in August when the State Department agreed to reevaluate the company's proposal.
But the department has since again rejected Alpha Omega. The company filed a new protest on Monday, again challenging how its proposal was evaluated.
A decision is due April 15.
Evolve is a vehicle State developed for enterprise-wide IT projects. State consolidated 11 current contracts into a single procurement with functional areas such as IT management, cloud and data center services, application development, network and telecommunications services, and customer support.
Bidders submitted proposals for each area they wanted to pursue. They did not have to bid on all of them.
The State Department has made several awards across the various functional areas. The large business awardees includes Leidos, General Dynamics IT, CACI International, Science Applications International Corp., Peraton, Booz Allen Hamilton, ManTech and Accenture.