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GAO Denies Second NGEN-R Protest

Thursday, June 18th, 2020

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GAO Denies Second NGEN-R Protest

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Wednesday denied Perspecta’s protest of Leidos’ [LDOS] Navy Next Generation Enterprise Network Re-compete (NGEN-R) contract win, clearing the final protest and allowing the new work to move forward. This came a week after GAO denied a similar protest by the other competitor, General Dynamics Information Technology [GD] (Defense Daily, June 12). In neither ruling did GAO explain its decision yet because the protest is covered by a protective order since “some information in the decision may…

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