The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has blocked the General Services Administration (GSA) from making additional awards under the Polaris governmentwide IT contract until the agency addresses errors identified by the court.
In a September 10 ruling, Judge Thompson M. Dietz granted protests brought by OM Partners and DevTech, while denying protests from Assyst, GenceTek, BLJV, and Rigil. The court also granted in part and denied in part GSA’s cross-motion for judgment.
At issue in the protests was whether GSA treated offerors equally during the evaluation process. OM Partners, for example, argued that GSA did not allow the company to correct a clerical error in its submission while allowing another bidder to correct a similar error.
The court’s detailed opinion remains sealed, but the publicly available judgment prohibits GSA from making additional Polaris awards until the agency addresses the “prejudicial errors” identified by the court.
GSA has already made more than 100 Polaris awards across the general small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, woman-owned small business, and HUBZone pools.