Protesters targeted CGI's Healthcare.gov work and Leidos' merger with Lockheed Martin's IT business as weaknesses but failed to convince GAO that there was a problem with Social Security's $7.8 billion contract award.
NCI's AdvancedMed unit had won an earlier protest over a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services contract. But it was not so lucky this time when CMS made its second award.
ECS Federal has agreed in a $775 million deal to be acquired by publicly-held staffing firm On Assignment, a large but new player in the federal market.
A whopping 185 companies have filed appeals to SBA claiming that some of the intended winners of Alliant 2 Small Business contract are in fact not small businesses.
Leidos has fought to keep an incumbent Transportation Security Administration contract since October but has now withdrawn its protest. That clears the way for Peraton to take over the work.
Whether Dell and VMware pull off a reverse merger where VMware buys Dell, the possibility of such a bold move says a lot about the market and the need to adapt.
