Mission Essential’s $408 Million NSA Bid Reasonably Thrown Out

The National Security Agency reasonably eliminated The Mission Essential Group LLC’s $408 million bid to provide signals intelligence services under a procurement called LUCIDLOBSTER, the GAO said in a decision released Thursday.

Mission Essential failed to show that the agency conducted an inadequate technical evaluation before eliminating its bid from the competition, the Government Accountability Office said.

The agency seeks to award a contract for active and passive signals intelligence in support of combatant commands, and NSA target offices of primary interest, the GAO said.

Mission Essential protested after the agency excluded the company from the competitive range.

But the ...