Intelsat wins contract dispute against Northern Virginia rivals
Written on May 22, 2010
Satellite fleet operator Intelsat Corp. sucessfully beat back a protest from three Northern Virginia companies alleging anti-competitive behavior by an Intelsat subsidiary on a five-year, $543 million U.S. Navy satellite services contract.
Intelsat, whose global headquarters is in Luxembourg with a main office in the District, said the Commercial Broadband Satellite Program (CBSP) contract with the Navy has already kicked into gear.
“We have already received our first order under the contract, and we are moving forward right now,” said Dianne VanBeber, a spokeswoman for Intelsat. “There is capacity in there that the Navy actively uses. Once the stop-work order was lifted last Thursday, things got moving quickly.”
Artel Inc. of Reston, CapRock Communications Inc. in Fairfax, and Segovia Inc. of Herndon — all of which were CBSP bidders along with Intelsat’s government services subsidiary, Intelsat General — argued that Intelsat engaged in anti-competitive behavior during the competition. The U.S. Government Accountability Office ruled there were no errors in the evaluation process and that Intelsat should keep the contract.
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