Akamai Keeps DOD Agency’s Domain Name Services Contract

ERP Services Inc. failed to show that the Department of Defense’s Washington Headquarters Services improperly awarded Akamai Technologies Inc. a contract for domain name system resolver services and data storage, the GAO said Wednesday.

ERP didn’t demonstrate that the agency deviated from solicitation requirements by rejecting its bid for not using proper colors in its demonstration prototype, the Government Accountability Office said.

The agency said it would assess whether a user could complete a task with minimal cognitive strain, the GAO said.

ERP argued the solicitation didn’t say bidders had to conform to any specific design principles.

But it would ...