contract protest
DynCorp International last week filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office over the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program, or LOGCAP V.
Earlier this month, the Army said it had awarded spots on the program to KBR, Vectrus, Fluor and a PAE-Parsons team. KBR, Fluor and DynCorp International were the incumbents on the previous version of the program.
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Federal court denies DynCorp protest of $10B State Department contract
By Robert J. Terry — A federal court has upheld a State Department award of an 11 1/2-year, $10 billion contract to AAR Airlift, dealing a blow to McLean-based DynCorp International’s yearlong fight to wrest the lucrative program away from the Illinois company.
The Court of Federal Claims entered a judgment late Tuesday in favor of the U.S. government, upholding the award of the Worldwide Aviation Support Services (WASS) program to the subsidiary of publicly held AAR (NYSE: AIR).
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According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, DynCorp International, LLC, of Fort Worth, Texas, protests the award of a contract to URS Federal Services, Inc., under request for proposals (RFP) No. W58RGZ-14-R-0270, which was issued by the Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command, Redstone, for aviation field maintenance support services. DynCorp challenges the Army's evaluation of the offerors' technical proposals, the protester's past performance, and URS's price/cost proposal, and also argues that the best value tradeoff and source selection was unreasonable.
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C&S Corporation, of Seoul, Korea, protests the award of a contract to KF&S Corporation, also of Seoul, Korea, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W91QVN-15-R-0036, which was issued by the Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command, for contract security guard services.
C&S argues that KF&S's proposal should have been found unacceptable for failing to meet the solicitation's prime contractor corporate experience requirements. The protester also asserts that KF&S included forged labor union documents in its proposal, which should disqualify that firm from award. In addition, C&S challenges the veracity of the agency's statements responding to the forgery allegation, which we view as an assertion that the agency was motivated by bias and bad faith.
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U.S. Government Accountability Office — Louis Berger Services, Inc. (LBS), of Morristown, New Jersey, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. N33191-14-R-1010, issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, for base operating support services at Naval Station Rota, Spain. LBS specifically challenges the RFP's inclusion of a definitive responsibility criterion relating to possession of certain Spanish "Certificates of Classification."
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In July 3, 2013 Department of State (DOS) awarded PAE a contract for $403 million to provide life support services at U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. The contract is to provide life support services including food procurement, preparation and serving, fuel procurement and delivery, postal support services, solid waste management, property acrap, destruction and disposals; recreation support services; airfield and structural fire protection, warehouse operations support, airfield management and operations support, transportation services, RSO supplemental staffing support for vetting, badging and security systems maintenance, and program management.
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URS Federal Services, Inc., of Germantown, Maryland, protests the Department of the Army's award of a contract to DynCorp International LLC, of Fort Worth, Texas, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W58RGZ-12-R-0102, for theater aviation sustainment maintenance (TASM). URS protests the evaluation of proposals and the source selection.
The purpose of this contract was for Aviation Field Maintenance that was issued back in 06 April 2012.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Middle East District awarded a task order contract for transient quarters and dining facility in Manama, Bahrain, on Sept. 11. ECC CENTCOM Constructors, LLC, of Burlingame, Calif., was awarded the task order contract for $40.3 million.
Contrack International, Inc. (CI), of McLean, Virginia, protested the issuance of a task order to ECC CENTCOM Constructors, LLC, of Burlingame, California, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 35 MATOC MED 33 2012, issued by the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers for the construction of transient quarters, and an enlisted and officer dining facility, in Bahrain. CI maintains that the agency improperly excluded its proposal from consideration for award.
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AAR AIR announced today that the Company has received notice of a protest of a contract awarded by the U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) to AAR Airlift for fixed-wing airlift support in Central Africa. The Company announced the contract award, valued at approximately $23 million in revenue, on December 2, 2013.
The Company believes that USTRANSCOM made the correct decision in selecting AAR Airlift after careful consideration of the requirements of the RFP and the quality of its technical solution and past performance.
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According to U.S. Government Accountability Office, Serco Inc., of Virginia Beach, Virginia, protest against the Department of the Army's award of the Global Logistics and Support Services (GLASS) contract to Jacobs Technology, Inc., of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. W52P1J-11-R-0068.
The solicitation sought proposals to provide a broad range of support services for the Army's logistics civil augmentation program (LOGCAP) and the Army Contracting Command at Rock Island, Illinois. Serco, the incumbent contractor, protests that the agency conducted flawed discussions, misevaluated the offers technical/management proposals, conducted a flawed cost realism analysis, and failed to consider an alleged conflict of interest.
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Army Maj. John L. Cockerham is escorted into U.S. Federal Court for a sentencing hearing after he was convicted of taking $9.6 million in bribes while serving in Iraq, in the largest such bribery case to come out of the war in Iraq.[/caption]
George Lee, a Kuwait-based U.S. defense contractor who was reaping millions as America’s quagmire in Iraq deepened, sent an e-mail to an Army major who awarded bids in Baghdad, warning her not to visit him.“None of us want Uncle Sam, or anyone else, looking where they should not be looking,” he wrote in one of the trove of messages and intercepted phone calls that exposed the biggest fraud conspiracy from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
So far, 22 people have been indicted and $67 million has been recovered in that single scheme, which remains under investigation.
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NSF and the USAP have been anchoring the U.S. presence in Antarctica since 1956 through its active and influential scientific research program, supporting fundamental discovery research that can only be done there and studying the Antarctic and its interactions with the rest of the planet. The program goals include: understanding the region and how its ecosystems depend on the polar environment; understanding its effects on (and responses to) global processes such as climate, and using the region as a platform for fundamental research in every scientific discipline. Antarctica's remoteness and extreme climate make it a unique and natural laboratory environment.
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The Senate recently agreed to make the Pentagon compile annual reports on contracting fraud. The provision by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was added to a Department of Defense authorization bill.
“This country has a $16 trillion national debt. It is unacceptable that the Department of Defense continues to lose vast sums of taxpayer money because of fraud perpetrated by major defense contractors. This has got to stop,” Sanders said.
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EOD Technology, Inc., of Lenoir, Tennessee, protests the corrective action taken by the Department of the Army under request for proposals (RFP) No. W91B4L-12-R-0189 for security services in Afghanistan. EOD argues that the Army improperly determined that EOD was nonresponsible, and permitted the awardee, Olive Group, of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to begin performing the contract.
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Fluor Corp. has dropped a protest filed last month with the Government Accountability Office challenging a $500 million award to KBR Inc. for a logistics support contract in Iraq, according to KBR and a government website.
Irving, Texas-based Fluor withdrew its protest Wednesday, according to the GAO's website and KBR spokeswoman Gabriela Segura in an e-mail.
The contract was on hold until the protest was resolved.
KBR will support the State Department's embassy staff, including utilities management, fire fighting, food services, laundry, shuttle bus services, fuel and postal operations.Houston, Texas-based KBR announced August 2 it will continue for the State Department its previous Iraq role providing base support after U.S. troops are scheduled to withdraw in December.
The one-year contract includes a one-year option. KBR has not received any similar contracts for Afghanistan yet.