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GAO rejects legal challenges to multibillion dollar military moving contract

The arbiter found five separate protests filed by two losing bidders were ‘without merit’ on Thursday.

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Pentagon loses two bid protests that challenged $7 billion moving contract

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GAO denies second protest of Navy’s $7.7 billion NGEN contract

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(Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Samantha Jetzer/U.S. Navy via AP)200610-N-ML137-1057 PHILIPPINE SEA (June 10, 2020) In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, an F/A-18E Super Hornet attached to the

GAO turns back first of two bid protests challenging Navy’s NGEN-R contract

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FILE - In this March 20, 2012, file photo, a plane flies over Oracle headquarters in Redwood City, Calif. On Tuesday, March 27, 2018, a federal appeals court overturned a decision in a long-running legal battle over whether Google infringed on Oracle's Java programming language to build its hugely popular mobile operating system, Android. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

GAO overturns DoD agreement for $1B in cloud computing services

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Ralph White: Contract protest perception isn’t reality

Perception isn’t reality for bid protests in the federal government. Some perceptions — like there are more protests than ever — are more chatter…

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Bid protests continue to rise as agencies take corrective action more quickly

The Government Accountability Office released its annual report showing vendors submitted 5 percent more protests in 2014 than in 2013. But the overall…

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GAO sustains protest of DHS contract to USIS

The Government Accountability Office says the Citizenship and Immigration Services directorate should reevaluate USIS to determine if it’s indeed a responsible contractor in light of allegations of defrauding the government and an investigation by the Justice Department on those charges.

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