State Department Cancels Try for New Logistics Tracking System

A $2.5 billion logistics modernization contract never reached the start of formal bidding and on Tuesday dropped off the State Department’s near-term procurement plans following months of delays.

The agency had designed Logistics and Supply Chain Management Systems Services as a single-award 10-year follow-on to a contract currently held byAccenture that runs out at the end of September.

Accenture has accrued more than $1.73 billion for the work since 2009, with about one-fifth of those contract dollars going to subcontractors.

“It is the Government’s intent to redefine the scope of work based largely on the feedback and suggestions received ...