# GAO Sustains USCIS Bid Protest

The Government Accountability Office sustained FusionEdge Solutions’ protest of USCIS’s corrective action in a multiple-award task-order competition under a GSA IT Schedule that contemplated up to three awards. USCIS limited its reconsideration to LightFeather even though FusionEdge remained eligible for a potential third award. The decision underscores that agencies should follow the solicitation’s commitments to consider eligible quotations fairly and support evaluation judgments—including any finding of technical equivalence—before relying on price alone.

- Agencies conducting corrective action should ensure the scope matches the solicitation and the eligible vendors for the award being reconsidered; unsupported exclusions can create protest risk.
- Contractors may have grounds to challenge a corrective-action evaluation when the agency’s rationale is not supported by the contemporaneous procurement record.
- For this competition, the identified awardees are BridgePhase and Peregrine, while FusionEdge remains relevant to the potential third award; companies should assess whether corrective-action decisions are consistent with the solicitation and documented evaluation.

**Jurisdictions:** federal
**Industries:** Information Technology
**Topics:** Contracting Vehicles
**Published:** October 08, 2026

### Government Entities
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
- Government Accountability Office (GAO)
- General Services Administration (GSA)
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

### Vendors
- FusionEdge Solutions, LLC (protester)
- LightFeather (bidder considered in corrective action)
- BridgePhase (awardee)
- Peregrine (awardee)

### Sources
- [Agencies Cannot Use Corrective Action to Shrink Competition in GA](https://natlawreview.com/article/when-corrective-action-isnt-gao-sustains-protest-over-one-bidder-do-over) - The National Law Review
- [When “Corrective Action” Isn’t: GAO Sustains Protest Over One-Bidder Do-Over | Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP - JDSupra](https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/when-corrective-action-isn-t-gao-5974828) - JDSupra