U.S. Transportation Command has decided its contested $7.2 billion contract to overhaul the military’s moving system doesn’t need corrective action after all.
TRANSCOM said Monday its acquisition officials and legal counsel had spent the past two weeks reexamining the award decision in light of two protests losing bidders had filed at the Government Accountability Office. In the end, they decided the very claims that caused the command to pull the contract back for corrective action were “unsubstantiated.”
“During the same period, the source selection team reviewed the entire source selection record. Revised source selection documentation was approved on June 29, 2020,” the command said in a statement. “Accordingly, the award to [American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier Group] (ARC) was confirmed on June 29, 2020.”
Officials said they started the corrective action process in response to claims by one of the protesters who charged that ARC, the winning bidder, had failed to disclose “adverse information” about its parent company, Norway-based logistics company Wallenius Wilhelmsen. However, after consulting with ARC officials, TRANSCOM evidently…
