Sixty days from forecast to request
- Forecast
- Published 2025-04-07 · “formally RITS 2.0”
- Forecast value
- $500,000,000 to $999,000,000
- Request
- Issued 2025-06-06 · 60 days later
- Evaluated prices
- $1.40B and $1.43B
Evidence
The public forecast appeared on 7 April 2025 with an estimated value of $500 million to $999 million. The request followed on 6 June 2025, sixty days later. Both evaluated prices GAO records were above $1.4 billion.
Inference
A team that started at the forecast had two months. Shaping had to happen earlier, in market research, and a response there is how a firm becomes known before the clock starts. The forecast's value band was a floor, not a guide.
Still unknown
Whether a request for information or an industry day preceded the forecast. It is not in the sources reviewed.
Proposed next step
Treat the predecessor's end date, not the forecast, as the trigger. Answer market research when it appears, and hold every experience claim until its owner approves the evidence.
How this was found
- Forecast dataFound the forecast entry and its publish date.7 April 2025, with a value band well below the prices later evaluated.
- Opportunity, RFI, solicitation & amendment dataSearched for the request and any market research that preceded it.Request issued 6 June 2025; no earlier RFI found in the sources reviewed.
- Published decision (GAO)Took the evaluated prices from the decision.$1,401,410,077 and $1,431,877,836 - both above the forecast band.
- Contract award dataRead the predecessor's end date from its award record.The real trigger for the clock, ahead of the forecast.
Inspect the source
The forecast entry gives the publish date, the value range, and the description “formally RITS 2.0”, a recompete for the Corps of Engineers' Office of the CIO/G-6. The request date and the prices are from the GAO decision.