Sparksoft Wins Protest of $34.1 Million Cybersecurity Task Order

Sparksoft Corp. showed that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services conducted an unreasonable personnel evaluation before awarding a $34.1 million cybersecurity services task order to Titania Solutions Group Inc., the Government Accountability Office said Friday.

The agency should re-evaluate the companies’ key personnel, perform a new best-value tradeoff analysis, and make a new award decision, the GAO said.

The GAO said it agreed with Sparksoft that the agency engaged in disparate treatment in its evaluation of the systems security officer position.

Sparksoft demonstrated that the agency awarded Titania a “positive finding” for its officer’s certified information systems security professional ...