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Raytheon's $1B DHS EINSTEIN contract confirmed 2 years after first award

Fedscoop: Raytheon will move forward with a $1.15 billion contract to provide support for the Department of Homeland Security’s EINSTEIN system following a series of unsuccessful protests to overturn the contract award.

The company originally won the five-year Development, Operations and Maintenance contract, better known as DOMino, in September 2015, but it was delayed when Northrup Grumman protested the decision multiple times, claiming that Raytheon had an unfair advantage in part because it had hired former DHS employees.

The Government Accountability Office denied that protest earlier this month saying that DHS officials concluded that any information that former employees working at Raytheon may have possessed was not competitively useful.

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