Defense Contractor’s Protest of $3 Billion in Awards Dismissed

A defense contractor that protested three Army contract awards to a competitor, totaling nearly $3 billion, failed to show the awards were improper, the Government Accountability Office said in a decision released Friday.

Sigmatech Inc. protested three task orders that were issued to Torch Technologies Inc. by Redstone Arsenal for the Army’s Software, Simulation, Systems Engineering & Integration directorate. The GAO found no basis to sustain the company’s protests.

Sigmatech said the agency had an undisclosed preference for awarding all of the orders to one contractor, improperly bundled the awards in violation of small business laws and regulations, and didn’t ...