Barbaricum’s Protest of $4.7 Billion Defense Procurement Denied

Barbaricum LLC failed to show that the US National Air and Space Intelligence Center improperly excluded the company’s bid for a contract under a $4.7 billion intelligence services procurement known as Novastar.

Barbaricum didn’t demonstrate that the agency erred in concluding that the proposal failed to satisfy the standard for geospatial intelligence in the request for proposals, Judge Stephen S. Schwartz of the US Court of Federal Claims said in a partially redacted opinion made public Wednesday. The court reached its decision May 22 and placed the opinion under seal.

Geospatial intelligence involves analysis of imagery and geospatial information to ...