SemanticBits Keeps $112 Million IT Order to Support Medicare

SemanticBits LLC will perform a $112 million information technology services task order for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services despite a protest from the incumbent contractor Ventera Corp., the GAO said in a decision released Friday.

The agency reasonably decided that Ventera’s plan to use fewer than the number of software teams specified in the solicitation posed a risk to successful performance, the Government Accountability Office said.

The agency also reasonably found that SemanticBits’ technically superior bid justified its selection over Ventera’s $85 million bid, the GAO said.

The task order was issued under the Agile Delivery to Execute ...