AT&T’s Telecom Award From FBI Withstands Protest From Verizon

Verizon Wireless lost on its claim that the FBI improperly considered bid prices before selecting AT&T Mobility LLC to provide wireless voice and data telecommunications services under a $92 million blanket purchase agreement, in a GAO decision released Friday.

Verizon, which submitted a $148 million bid, didn’t demonstrate that the solicitation required the agency to conduct a price realism analysis to decide if AT&T’s price posed a risk to successful performance, the Government Accountability Office said.

The GAO also rejected Verizon’s challenges to the technical evaluation, including its argument that AT&T didn’t satisfy the requirement that it provide devices that ...