{"id":17423,"date":"2019-03-28T15:10:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T15:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/03\/28\/government-tech-contract-gets-a-court-ordered-redo\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:47:11","slug":"government-tech-contract-gets-a-court-ordered-redo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/acquisition\/2019\/03\/28\/government-tech-contract-gets-a-court-ordered-redo\/","title":{"rendered":"Government tech contract gets a court-ordered redo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The General Services Administration has taken back all 81 contract awards<\/a> under its $15 billion Alliant 2 Small Business contract, after a United States Court of Federal Claims judge found that some of the awards were made in error due to contracting officer mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citizant, Inc. \u2014 a small business located in Chantilly, Virginia \u2014 initially filed its protest of the Alliant Small Business contract with the Government Accountability Office in March 2018. But GAO dismissed the claim in May of that year, causing the business to file its claim in court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCitizant protests the CO\u2019s decision to award contracts to various offerors,\u201d the court order said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSpecifically, Citizant argues that the CO erred when he (1) credited various offerors with the points they claimed for possessing an acceptable [cost accounting systems], (2) found other offerors proposed reasonable pricing, (3) deemed two offerors responsible, and (4) awarded contracts to some offerors despite not identifying them as being eligible for an award in the [source selection decision memorandum]. Citizant further argues that each of those errors was prejudicial\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t