NOAA’s $8 Billion Weather Data Procurement Withstands Challenge

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration can move forward with contracts it awarded under an $8 billion procurement to support weather data collection, among other services, known as ProTech 2.0, the GAO said in a decision released Friday.

Protester Manutek Inc., which wasn’t among the 21 bidders the agency selected, raised several unsuccessful challenges to the agency’s proposal evaluations, the US Government Accountability Office said.

• Manutek argued, in part, that it the agency should have assigned its proposal a technical experience rating that exceeded “some confidence,” but the GAO said it backed the rating because the company claimed experience ...