Frank Konkel
AT&T was awarded 1 of the National Security Agency’s almost coveted classified tech contracts despite a bid that was $750 1000000 higher than the other competitor’s bid. According to redacted legal documents released March 20, the telecommunication giant bid $2.55 billion on a contract to “technically evolve” the NSA’s information technology environment, significantly to a greater extent than than a $1.79 billion bid from DXC Technology. The subsequent bid protestation resolved inwards AT&T’s favor inwards January. Called Regional Infrastructure Services I, the contract is the minute of iii massive tech contracts called Greenway that follow-up the agency’s classified Groundbreaker program. The infrastructure services contract is worth upward to $3.3 billion over 10 years if all options are exercised, according to the protestation documents.
The documents, included inwards the Government Accountability Office’s protestation decision, betoken why the NSA chose AT&T despite its higher costs. AT&T’s bid to a greater extent than than met minimal acceptable requirements inwards 8 fundamental factors, including technical services, venture management services, yesteryear performance together with transition together with hereafter state, according to the NSA.
DXC Technology’s bid alone met the minimal requirements inwards each category.
“The meaning benefits of AT&T’s non-price factors fully warrant this premium together with are non offset yesteryear [DXC Technology’s] lower-rated together with lower-priced proposal,” the NSA’s source alternative official wrote. The unnamed official added that AT&T’s proposal would render meaning benefits inwards “reliability, redundancy together with reduced risk” together with “merit the higher price.”
Key Contracts for the NSA
The bid protestation documentation offers a few novel details regarding how the NSA is updating the Groundbreaker program, 1 of its almost safely-guarded secrets, alongside a serial of contracts called Greenway.
The Groundbreaker programme was originally created inwards 2001 to outsource the NSA’s information technology operations. The showtime contract—reportedly worth upward to $5 billion over 10 years—was awarded to a consortium of contractors called the Eagle Alliance, led yesteryear Computer Sciences Corporation, which is instantly CSRA. Eagle Alliance would win the NSA’s showtime recompete of Groundbreaker, which was develop to expire inwards September 2017.
Because the Groundbreaker programme grew inwards size together with scope, the NSA opted to intermission the contract into iii portions, instantly called Greenway.
Late final year, CSRA announced through a Securities together with Exchange Commission filing that it captured the showtime of those iii portions—called Global Enterprise Services—worth $2.4 billion. GAO’s protestation determination indicates CSRA’s Global Enterprise Services contract “focuses on services provisioned on a global scale together with to a greater extent than virtual inwards nature,” which could betoken cloud-like services for NSA.
AT&T’s Regional Infrastructure Services I contract is the minute of those iii portions. It is unclear whether the 3rd portion, Regional Infrastructure Services II, has been awarded.
The protestation determination indicates the infrastructure services contracts volition render “services to a greater extent than localized together with physical inwards nature together with provisioned at specific zones throughout the world.”
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