DHS Properly Axed Bid From $2 Billion Covid-19 Tests Procurement

Comprehensive Health Services LLC didn’t show that the Department of Homeland Security relied on an unstated evaluation factor before eliminating its bid from a $2 billion maximum value Covid-19 test kits procurement, the GAO said in a decision released Wednesday.

Comprehensive Health failed to demonstrate that the department unreasonably assigned its bid a weakness for failing to address how the company would receive and handle “anonymized” personal data, the Government Accountability Office said.

The evaluation rating was reasonable because the department said it would require contractors to accept data in an anonymized format, the GAO said.

The department’s request for…