The Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Wednesday denied InSpace 21 LLC’s reconsideration request after GAO dismissed a protest challenging the award of a contract to Range Generation Next LLC for range services at the Air Force’s two launch sites.
GAO said it denied the request for consideration because the protestor has not demonstrated that the decision contained errors of law or fact that merited modification or reversal of its decision. GAO also said it denied a request for reconsideration based on new information arising from events that occurred after the issuance of its decision.
In November, Range Generation Next LLC, a joint venture of Raytheon [RTN] and General Dynamics [GD], beat out InSpace 21 LLC, a joint venture of PAE and Honeywell [HON]; IBL JV LLC, a joint venture of Exelis [XLS], L-3 Communications [LLL] and BAE Systems; and Consolidated Range Enterprise (CoRE), a joint venture of InDyne Corp., Lockheed Martin [LMT] and URS Corp., in November for a contract initially worth $86 million but potentially worth $2 billion if all options are exercised. The contract is called the Launch and Test Range System Integrated Support Contract (LISC) (Defense Daily, Nov. 7).
InSpace 21 LLC asked GAO to reconsider its decision to dismiss a protest filed Nov. 24 by a PAE vice president on behalf of InSpace 21, which argued in its protest that the Air Force failed to conduct meaningful discussions and that the best value tradeoff and source selection decision was unreasonable (Defense Daily, Jan. 9).