The National Institutes of Health’s IT acquisition organization apparently is working through another set of corrective actions involving protests of the small business portion of the CIO-SP4 IT solutions contract.

The Government Accountability Office is looking at the fix proposed by NIH’s Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center…

GAO has to approve the corrective action and verify that the action addresses the allegations in the protests. The bid protest and government oversight agency apparently is trying to understand the difference between the first corrective action and the one NITAAC is proposing.

If GAO is satisfied, it will need some time time to work through the 18 active protests. For now, those protests are still listed as active on the GAO docket with a decision due May 22. Read the full article here.