Court Slams Door on York Telecom’s $20 Billion IT Appeal

York Telecom Corp. failed in its appeal challenging its exclusion from NASA’s information technology competition with a maximum value of $20 billion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled.

The nonprecedential judgment, issued without opinion, upheld a lower court’s conclusion that York Telecom failed to timely protest a patently ambiguous term regarding business size in NASA’s solicitation.

York Telecom waived its ability to protest by failing to raise a challenge prior to the close of the procurement process, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims said.

York Telecom contended that the solicitation wasn’t ambiguous, and that it met ...