According to court filings, the companies want a judge to rule that the solicitation was “ambiguous, unduly restrictive, arbitrary, irrational, and contrary to law.”

Service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses and HUBZone offerors have until 4 p.m. on Nov. 4 to submit proposals.

Offerers participating in the first two pools of the IT procurement now have until Sept. 23 to submit proposals.

In at least one instance a prospective solicitation participant has received a unique entity identifier number already assigned to a different company.

No reason was given for allowing offerers in the small business and women-owned small business pools nine more days to bid.

From Aug. 22, small businesses will be able to use prior experience from joint ventures and prime contracts with subcontracting plans.

The agency on Thursday said it would push ahead with the procurement process for the IT services vehicle.

A draft request for proposals for Alliant 3 is also expected in the first quarter of fiscal 2023.

The success of the $50 billion Alliant 2 has the agency considering increasing the ceiling.

The amendment changes how the experience of offerers engaged in joint ventures will be addressed.