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When Something’s Not Quite Right

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You might get a sense something’s a little fishy when Company 1 bids half the total of Company 2 for a year-long contract to “ensure that the ORION O2 program is successfully and seamlessly integrated onto the ORION Data Layer” for the Defense Intelligence Agency (the ORION project, in case you’re wondering, establishes a high-density computing capability and analytical tool for DIA analysts):

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The losing contractor, Enterprise Information Services, Inc., of Vienna, Va., protested to the Government Accountability Office that DIA’s award to Computer Sciences Corporation, of Falls Church, Va., (both conveniently close to the Pentagon) was improper.

The GAO disagreed in a decision released Monday.

But the fact that the losing contractor’s bid was 49% the size of the winning contractor’s bid suggests there may be a problem in intelligence-profiteering paradise.