Peraton Loses Protest Over Probe Into Army Contract Exclusion

Peraton Inc. failed to persuade the US Government Accountability Office that the General Services Administration is conducting an impermissible investigation into Peraton’s eligibility for an Army contract.

The accountability office dismissed Peraton’s protest of the GSA probe into whether Peraton has a conflict of interest. The GSA, a federal agency, is soliciting bids for the open-source intelligence task order— expected to exceed $10 million—on behalf of the US Army Intelligence and Security Command.

The agency in February excluded Virginia-based Peraton from consideration for the task order, saying the security and satellite company has a conflict because Peraton hired an ex-Army ...