Raytheon [RTN] earlier this month brought General Dynamics [GD] onboard its team that earlier won a contract to consolidate the Army’s live, virtual and constructive training, as part of an agreement with the Army to resolve a successful protest by GD of the contract award to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
Raytheon’s Technical Services Co. in June won the 10-year, $11.2 billion Warfighter Field Operations Customer Support (FOCUS) contract over GD. The procurement was managed by the Navy for the Army. While its decision was actually made in September, the GAO only announced yesterday that it had sustained GD’s subsequent protest of the award based on inconsistencies in Raytheon’s price proposal. GAO recommended that the Navy reopen the competition.
However, because the Army preferred to keep the Warfighter FOCUS effort moving forward rather than to suffer delays brought about by a renewed competition, the Army, Raytheon and GD agreed to have GD become part of the Raytheon led Warrior Training Alliance team.
Most of the work being done under Warfighter FOCUS was previously being done under separate contracts to Computer Sciences Corp. [CSC], GD and Raytheon. CSC was part of Raytheon’s Warrior Training Alliance to bid on the consolidated contract.
Bringing GD’s Information Technology business on the team earlier this month paved the way for work on the program to resume.
“We are extremely excited to begin work on this very important program and are committed to a seamless transition that will enable us to provide the Army with the highest level of service and support,” Richard Yuse, president of Raytheon Technical Services, said in a recent statement. “General Dynamics is a complement to our integrated solution to improve the readiness and effectiveness of U.S. Army soldiers.”