Booz Allen’s $14 Million Sole Source Order Too Small for Protest

Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. can move forward with a nearly $14 million sole-source bridge task order to support the US Army’s joint common access platform, which the Army issued under a cyber warfare contract, the GAO said in a decision released Friday.

Protester ManTech Advanced Systems International Inc. argued that the sole-source award violated full and open competition requirements under the Competition in Contracting Act.

But the US Government Accountability Office said it lacked jurisdiction to review the protest. The GAO can only hear protests of task orders issued under multiple-award contracts within the US Department of Defense where the ...