AvKARE’s Drug Contract Stands Despite Auction ‘Glitch’ Claim

AvKARE LLC can supply potassium chloride tablets to the the US Defense Logistics Agency under a $39.5 million contract despite a protest alleging the agency oversaw a flawed reverse auction for the tablets, the GAO said in a decision released Wednesday.

Protester XLCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. failed to show that a technical “glitch” in the agency’s auction system unfairly prevented it from submitting a timely bid to win the contract, the US Government Accountability Office said.

XLCare provided no support for its assertions, the GAO said, in stark contrast to the agency’s evidence showing no technical errors in the reverse auction, ...