Other companies have joined in the suit including Futron Inc., DH Technologies Inc., Unicom Government Inc., and Enterprise Technology Solutions Inc., in addition to Advanced Computer Concepts Inc., which also moved for judgment on the administrative record, arguing that it was wrongly excluded for missing one word in its proposal.
GAI filed its motion for judgment under seal in April.
In its motion, GAI explained that the effect of leaving the cell blank was that it was assigned a value of zero for the purpose of calculating its total contract line price. It explained that when a column is summed in an Excel spreadsheet, it only sums the numbers following the blank space. It said that the Army’s mandatory price model spreadsheet, however, did not do this. The government had an algorithm embedded in the spreadsheet that assigned a zero value to the blank cells, according to GAI.
GAI said that the Army found it to be noncompliant because it left blank a “fixed discount for warranty variations” cell, which called for a percentage, not a price.
