AT&T wins a second shot $1.6B in FBI telecom work

When a company files a bid protest one of the things it hopes for is that it at least gets another shot at the contract in question.

And that’s what AT&T has earned in pursuit of a pair of FBI task orders worth a combined $1.6 billion. The agency has agreed to re-evaluate proposals for a $1.2 billion EIS task order for telecom services and a $419.3 million job for data networking and voice services also through EIS.

The telecom services task order went to Verizon, while the data networking contract was won by Lumen.

In its protest, AT&T said that the evaluations were not done properly. Rather than argue with AT&T in its response to the protest, the FBI agreed to re-evaluate and make a new selection decision.

There is no timeline for the new decision.