In the aftermath of George Floyd's death, GovCon executives found themselves having conversations with employees about social justice and systemic racism. Some of them shared with us their thoughts and actions their companies are taking to address these issues.
MicroTech checked the wrong box in its proposal for a $92 million Army contract and the entire proposal unraveled from there. That wrong box is tied to the new ban on Chinese-made communications equipment.
The protest pool grows as Northrop Grumman formally makes its own objections involving the Justice Department's $1.6 billion IT Support Services 5 contract.
Perspecta has joined other companies in pushing back at the Education Department choices for prime contracts under a $1.7 billion student loan processing contract.
Leidos has gone to the Government Accountability Office after the Defense Intelligence Agency eliminated it from the running for an analytical support services contract.
DynCorp International is now into round three of protests over a $700 million Army intelligence contract that went to CACI International nearly 15 months ago.
More than half of all contracts agencies awarded to address the COVID-19 pandemic were not through a competition, but GAO warns that competition can still net benefits even in a crisis.
The incumbent plus three more companies are protesting their elimination from a $400 million contract to support the Food and Drug Administration's regulatory efforts.
A company argued that a solicitation contained vague and ambiguous terms. But the Government Accountability Office says the document was clear when read as a whole.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's vehicle for modernizing its IT operations has been hit with a group protests of bidders who failed to win spots on the contract.
