WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- The Government Accountability Office has denied a bid protest from Advanced Computer Learning Co. LLC, a small business located in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The protest challenged the U.S. Navy's decision to award a contract for support services and data link training to Linchpin Solutions Inc., a small business based in Tampa, Florida. Advanced Computer Learning, the incumbent contractor for the services, argued that the Navy unfairly evaluated Linchpin Solutions' p more ST

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- The Government Accountability Office has denied a protest filed by ASR International Corp., a small business from Hauppauge, New York, against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The protest challenged the award of a contract for quality assurance services in Florida to Radise International LC. The GAO found the Army Corps of Engineers' evaluation of proposals to be reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. ASR's bid was initially deemed "unacceptable"  more ST

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- The Government Accountability Office has denied a protest from Environet Inc., a veteran-owned, small business from Honolulu, Hawaii, concerning a U.S. Navy contract for global fuel systems. Environet challenged the terms of the solicitation, arguing that the key personnel experience requirements were too restrictive and that the agency did not provide enough time to submit proposals after a solicitation amendment. The U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command, issued the more ST

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- The Government Accountability Office has dismissed a protest from Mission Analytics LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business from Falls Church, Virginia, against the Defense Logistics Agency. The protest challenged the DLA's decision to cancel a solicitation for 13 antennas, which had been set aside for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, and re-solicit it as a general small business set-aside. The GAO's dismissal was based on the fact that Missi more ST

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- The Government Accountability Office has partially dismissed and partially denied a protest from Subsidium Inc., a small business in Manassas, Virginia, over a State Department contract. The protest challenged the establishment of a blanket purchase agreement for human resources and acquisition support with Concordant LLC, a small business from Laramie, Wyoming. Subsidium's protest had two main arguments: first, that the agency failed to provide a timely brief explanatio more ST

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- The Government Accountability Office has dismissed a protest from Inkit Inc., a company based in Wilmington, Delaware, regarding a U.S. Army task order for DocuSign software. The U.S. Army awarded the contract to Carahsoft Technology Corporation of Reston, Virginia, through its Computer Hardware Enterprise Software and Solutions (CHESS) program. The Army Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement mandates the CHESS program as the required source for all commercial IT purch more ST

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- A bid protest from Resource Management Concepts Inc., a firm in Lexington Park, Maryland, was denied by the Government Accountability Office after the company's proposal failed to meet small business participation requirements for a Navy contract. The protest centered on a request for proposals issued by the U.S. the Navy for IT support services for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Keyport, Washington. The contract, a single cost-plus-fixed-fee task order with a 1-ye more ST