Bid protest settlement for GAO
The Government Accountability Office settles its first bid protest from a vendor who didn't meet FedRAMP cybersecurity requirements.
The Government Accountability Office settles its first bid protest from a vendor who didn’t meet FedRAMP cybersecurity requirements. SRA International protested a contract award by the Health and Human Services Department because they wound up offering a blanket purchase agreement for a cloud e-mail system to another company. SRA protested the decision because it claimed the evaluation process was unclear and unreasonable.
GAO shot down the bid protest because the company didn’t meet FedRAMP cloud security requirements. SRA never earned an authority to operate its e-mail system from the Joint Authorization Board or from an agency. This marks the first time a company lost a bid protest because it didn’t follow FedRAMP’s compliance rules. Those rules went into effect on about four months ago on June 5th.
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