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The U.S. Government Accountability Office has overturned the award of a potential nine-year, $19.9 billion contract to a New Jersey company for moving military household goods worldwide. The lucrative Global Household Goods Contract, first awarded in April to American Roll-on Roll-off Carrier Group, or ARC, of Parsippany, N.J., is intended to address military families’ long-standing problems with delays and damaged goods during moves to assignments, according to the Department of Defense U.S. Transportation Command. The GAO decision came in response to protests lodged by two of ARC’s competitors, alleging that ARC lacks the experience and capability to move the estimated 400,000 members of the military and their families, as well as DOD employees, across the globe each year.