Previous Incumbent Protests NASA’s $2.9 Billion IT Support Contract

NextGov: Earlier this month, NASA announced its $2.9 billion replacement enterprise IT contract would get a new vendor along with its new name. Now, the previous contract holder is asking the Government Accountability Office for a review.

The space agency awarded the NASA End-user Services and Technology, or NEST, contract to Leidos in early February, which will help “establish a long-term outsourcing arrangement with the commercial sector to provide and manage most of NASA's personal computing hardware, agency standard software, mobile IT services, peripherals and accessories, associated end-user services and supporting infrastructure,” according to an agency announcement.

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