<p>International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) won a protest seeking to overturn the award of a $543 million federal contract for wireless tracking to Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ)</p><p>The U.S. Government Accountability Office, Congress's investigative arm and an arbitrator of contract disputes, announced its decision today.</p><p>The watchdog agency agreed with IBM's argument that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs didn't properly evaluate proposals from vendors seeking the contract, Ralph O. White, the GAO's managing associate general counsel for procurement law, said in an e-mailed statement.</p><p>"GAO sustained, or upheld, IBM's protest, finding that the VA had made several prejudicial errors in its evaluation," White said. "Those errors led to a source selection decision that GAO found was unreasonable since it relied on the erroneous evaluation conclusions to support the award decision."</p><p><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-04/ibm-wins-protest-of-543-million-award-to-hewlett-packard-1-.html">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://seekingalpha.com/article/902181-6-favorite-october-tech-stocks-to-buy-and-hedge">6 Favorite October Tech Stocks To Buy And Hedge</a> (Seeking Alpha)</p><p><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-10-01/can-hewlett-packard-be-saved">Don't Bet on a Hewlett-Packard Comeback</a> (Businessweek)</p><p><a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/blog/morning_call/2012/10/hewlett-packard-relying-on-printer.html">Hewlett-Packard relying on printer unit to buy Whitman time</a> (L.A. Biz (blog))</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dCETodlnt-yNCfMyHHVT9isx7ACoM&ned=us">168 additional articles.</a></p>
