Dozens of Firms Win Challenge to NIH’s $50 Billion Procurement

The Government Accountability Office has sustained 98 protests filed by 64 offerors whose bids were eliminated under the National Institutes of Health’s $50 billion procurement known as Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners.

NIH’s decision not to advance the protesters’ bids past the first phase of the competition was flawed because the record doesn’t show that the agency reasonably evaluated the bids as required by the solicitation, the GAO said in a statement released Thursday.

The GAO recommended that the agency reevaluate proposals and make new determinations of which proposals should advance past the first phase.

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