Dell’s $2.5 Billion Award Unaffected by Price Sharing, Navy Says

The U.S. Navy concluded that alleged unlawful price information sharing didn’t affect Dell Marketing LP’s award of a $2.5 billion blanket purchase agreement to provide Microsoft software services, the government said in a court filing released on Tuesday.

No one from Dell obtained or was provided contract line item-level pricing information about protester Insight Public Sector Inc. before Dell sent a May 27, 2021, email to the Navy, the government told the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in an ongoing bid protest.

Insight asserted that the email indicated there was sharing of inside information about Insight’s bid that violated the ...