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Objections to Evaluation Were Just Disagreement With Agency’s Conclusions; EMCOR Government Services, Inc., GAO B-419699.4
Agency Properly Rejected Late, Non-Compliant Proposal; Starblast Corporation, GAO B-419948
Agency Didn’t Force Protester to Raise Its Prices; The Ginn Group, Inc., GAO B-420165, B-420165.2
Case Filed as Bid Protest Should’ve Been Brought as Claim Under Contract Disputes Act; Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 21-2001C
Agency Not Required to Equalize Competition to Accommodate Protester’s Business Decision; Shamrock Marine Towing & Salvage, GAO B-419940.3, B-419940.4
You Ain’t All That: Protester Claimed Agency Failed to Recognize Proposal’s “Unique Capabilities,” But GAO Found Protester Just Disagreed With Evaluation Conclusions: Executive Acquisition & Global Logistic Engineering Services, LLC, GAO B-420231, B-420231.2
Economic Harms Commonly Suffered by Disappointed Bidders Are not the Type of Irreparable Harm that Warrants Suspension of Performance During a Protest: Protest of A3 Technology, Inc FAA No. 21-ODRA-00890
Fishin’ in the Dark: “Naked Assertions” of Collusion in Award of Trout Supply Contract Not Enough to Maintain Protest; Desert Springs Trout Farm, GAO B-420338, B-420338.2
FAA Determines that Friday After Thanksgiving Is a Business Day; Protest of RELX Inc. d.b.a LexisNexis, FAA No. 21-ODRA-00896
GAO’s Admonishment of Attorney for Violation of Protective Order Didn’t Preclude Individual From Seeking Admission to Subsequent Protective Order; Operations Services, Inc., GAO B-420226
Communication with Offeror Was Just a Clarification, Not Discussions; Cherokee CRC, LLC, GAO B-420205, B-420205.2
Change Claim Fails When Alleged Change Was Specified in the Contract; E&I Global Energy Services, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 19-244C
COFC Kicks Case Over to CBCA; BES Design/Build, LLC v. United States, COFC NO. 20-1834C
GAO Sustains Protest, Finds Agency Essentially Condoned the Platonic Form of a Conflict of Interest; Serco, Inc., GAO B-419617.2, B-419617.3
Agency Reasonably Considered Its Personal Knowledge in Evaluating the Awardee; Strategic Operations Solutions, Inc., GAO B-420159 et al.
Agency Erred in Issuing BPAs that Exceeded Terms of Vendors’ FSS Contracts; Meridian Knowledge Solutions, LLC, GAO B-420150 et al.
Protester Can’t Convince GAO that Agency Erred in Rejecting Low-Rated, High-Priced Proposal; SOC, LLC, GAO B-419977, B-419977.2
Agency Appropriately Exercised Option in 8(a) Contract Even Though Contractor Had Graduated from 8(a) Program; Monbo Group International, GAO B-420217, B-420217.2
Simply Saying that an Offeror Is a Better “Return on Investment” Does Not Amount to Application of Unstated Criteria; Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., GAO B-420098 et al.
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