IBM Suspended From Government Work

Suspending a large company from Federal work is unusual:

IBM Corp. was apparently blindsided by the Environmental Protection Agency’s move to suspend the company from pursuing new government work.

I don't expect the EPA's decision to stand, especially since the dispute seems to involve a contract IBM did not win:

The suspension apparently involves an $84 million EPA contract won in February 2007 by the CGI Group to modernize the agency’s financial management system. IBM filed a protest of the award, which stopped work on the project, according to market research firm Input Inc. The Government Accountability Office still has the protest under review, according to Input.

Whatever IBM's sins in this area, it would seem strange that other unassociated divisions of this company would be penalized. I expect the EPA will recieve blowback from other Government agencies. It will be interesting to see what is going on here.

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Apr 1, 2008