The firm secured a significant win for client Wyle Labs in a bid protest challenging NASA’s award of a $1.8 billion contract to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC).  The contract is to provide medical, biomedical and health services in support of NASA’s human spaceflight programs at the Johnson Space Center.  The Government Accounting Office (GAO) on December 27 sustained Wyle’s protest on the grounds that SAIC’s proposal and NASA’s evaluation of it failed to reasonably reflect the manner in which the contract would be performed, the level of costs associated with the performance and the corporate entity that would perform it.  The GAO recommended that NASA either award the contract to Wyle or reopen the procurement process and solicit revised or new proposals.  As co-counsel, the Perkins team pursued the bid protest for the past three months and described the result as “extremely favorable.”  The team was led by Lee Curtis and Jeff Eisenstein and included Don Carney, Bill Bainbridge, Seth Locke and paralegals Sheri Pais and John Cascio.