Judge sides with VA in T4NG2 protest case

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Ross Wilkers By Ross Wilkers,
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The Veterans Affairs Department's potential 10-year, $60 billion IT modernization vehicle has been tied up in court for almost two years.

A federal judge has denied all remaining protests involving T4NG2 — the Veterans Affairs Department’s main contract for IT modernization and other tech solutions that now looks poised to open for business with this ruling.

U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Molly Silfen’s decision is sealed for the time being, but she directed the clerk of the court on Monday to enter her judgment in favor of VA.

Back in May, VA agreed to not start awarding task orders until at least March of this year for the potential $60 billion Transformation Twenty-one Total Technology Next Generation 2 vehicle. VA made that move to give the court enough time to rule on the remaining protests, which totaled 26 at the time.

Silfen then gave those 26 companies a July 14 deadline to file amended complaints that would have continued their protests, or else they had to drop out of the case entirely.

That left a final group of these 18 protesters, who lost their challenges as of Monday’s ruling:

  • Arrow Arc
  • Clearview
  • Freedom Technology Partners
  • General Dynamics IT
  • Innovenue
  • Intellect joint venture
  • King Street
  • Mission Training
  • OMNI Cares
  • Pinnacle Computer Technology
  • Systematic Innovations
  • T4NG2 JV
  • ThunderYard Liberty JV
  • TISTA
  • Vector Innovative Solutions
  • Veteran First Technologies
  • Vision Tech

Attorneys representing the department and the remaining protesters will negotiate a public version of the decision, pending their requests for any redactions.

The potential 10-year T4NG2 vehicle has been the subject of several protests ever since VA first made awards to 30 companies in the fall of 2023, first at the Government Accountability Office and then at the Court of Federal Claims.

VA first substituted one awardee after a size review determined that company was not a small business. The court case started in March 2024, after which VA added three additional firms to the contract after a re-evaluation of their proposals.

Like its T4NG predecessor, the new T4NG2 contract will act as VA’s primary mechanism for acquiring IT services and solutions from industry.

VA has obligated $17.4 billion in task order volume to-date against the current T4NG iteration that expires on June 30, according to GovTribe data.

T4NG2’s final roster of 33 awardees is as follows after Monday’s ruling:

  • 1Tech joint venture
  • A2E Digital Solutions
  • Accenture’s U.S. federal subsidiary
  • Alpha Communications Services
  • ATL-NG
  • Booz Allen Hamilton
  • Canopy Health
  • Clear Vantage Point Solutions
  • Credence Management Solutions
  • Deloitte
  • Digipathy
  • Dynamic Government Resources 2
  • ECS Federal
  • Galapagos-Intellidyne Solutions
  • GovCIO
  • H2 Technology Group
  • JTech
  • ManTech
  • NXG Solutions
  • Optical Link
  • Peregrine Digital Services
  • RP and Partners
  • Science Applications International Corp.
  • SCIO JV
  • SiloDynamics
  • Starlo Innovation
  • T4 Designs
  • Taurian Consulting
  • Technatomy Corp.
  • VCH Partners
  • Veterans EZ Info
  • Zetta Solutions

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