US Marine Corps’ Price-Driven Procurement Change Upheld by GAO

The US Marine Corps can move ahead with its plan to amend its procurement for services to support its program manager expeditionary radars portfolio, the Government Accountability Office said.

The agency, which decided to take corrective action following Catalyst Solutions LLC’s initial protest, reasonably decided to include a price realism evaluation of bids, the GAO said in a decision released Tuesday.

The agency sufficiently explained that it made this change because it identified a “significant spread between the proposed prices” in initial bids, including at least one that was relatively low, the GAO said. This disparity indicated to the agency ...