The U.S. Navy should reconsider awarding an $11 million contract for live-fire and damage control training, because it failed to properly consider whether Maritime Institute of Technology and Graduate Studies offered a facility that satisfied solicitation requirements, the GAO said in a decision released Wednesday.
Announcements of more than $10 billion in shipyard modernization since August may be a sign the Navy is speeding up its 20-year, $21 billion Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program. Construction spending, which will account for most of the SIOP money, appears to be underway.
The command responsible for all military special operations components seeks quick feedback on a draft solicitation for comprehensive enterprise-wide professional services support that could be worth up to $150 million.
The National Institutes of Health’s IT procurement known as Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners is unduly restrictive of competition because it limits the experience references that large businesses in mentor-protégé joint ventures can submit in their offers, the GAO said.
The Environmental Protection Agency plans a solicitation with a 100% small business set-aside for contractors to review agency space usage, to suggest efficiency improvements, and to implement operational changes for its approximately 10 million square feet of space across 170 facilities nationwide.
Six Crossroads Hospice centers operating in Ohio and Tennessee agreed to pay $5.5 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting claims to Medicare for non-covered hospice services, according to a Justice Department news release.
