Percipient.AI Can Proceed With Intelligence Contract Challenge

The US National Geospatial Intelligence Agency must face a bid protest brought by Percipient.AI, the US Court of Federal Claims ruled.

Percipient.AI has standing for the protest even though it made no prime contract bid, the court said in an opinion by Judge Eric G. Bruggink.

“Offerors of commercial products need not bid on the prime contract” to have standing under a statute that requires agencies to procure commercial or non-developmental products “to the maximum extent practicable,” Bruggink wrote. “Instead, the appropriate question in this context is whether the protestor was prepared to offer its commercial product to the agency ...