Revalidation Unlikely to End NIH Tech-Deal Bid Protest Saga

Jim Tucker and Damien Specht authored an article for Law360 about the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issuing two decisions sustaining post-award protests by 91 unsuccessful Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners (CIO-SP4) offerors, including what the GAO found and what it means for both successful and unsuccessful CIO-SP4 offerors.

“Assuming the agency really did hard validate the self-scores of all proposals that advanced to phase 2, it appears unlikely that corrective action will displace any of the current ‘apparent successful offerors,’” the authors wrote. “The stay of award/performance, however, presumably will remain in place and prevent any task order competitions from proceeding under CIO-SP4 until the agency completes this latest round of corrective action.”

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