Ernst & Young Fails to Halt $250 Million Army Accounting Award

Guidehouse Inc. can move forward with a $250 million maximum value contract to provide the US Army with accounting, auditing solutions, and change management support services, the GAO said in a decision released Friday.

Protester Ernst & Young LLP didn’t show that the Army conducted an improper corrective action, following an earlier protest, by not allowing bidders to make wholesale changes to their bids, the US Government Accountability Office said.

Allowing limited proposal revisions was reasonable because this decision still allowed the companies to address how an updated solicitation materially affected aspects of technical and cost approaches, the GAO said. ...