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Agency Didn’t Improperly Evaluate Price Realism; Enterprise Resource Planned Systems International, LLC, GAO B-419763.2, B-419763.3
Protester Entitled to Fees Under EAJA Because Government’s Litigation Position Wasn’t Substantially Justified; Superior Optical Labs, Inc. v. United States, COFC NO. 20-1211C
Award Made Under 8(a) Program Was a New Requirement, So Adverse Impact Analysis Was Unnecessary; Quanterion Solutions, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 21-493
Protester Can’t Show Key Personnel Requirements Were Unduly Restrictive; The Ambit Group, LLC, GAO B-420079
Inclusion of COVID-19 “Force-Majeure” Provision Renders Bid Nonresponsive; American Mine Services, LLC, GAO B-420138
USPS Badly Botched Specifications in a Mail Delivery Contract; Weber Trucking, LLC v. United States Postal Service, PSBCA Nos. 6784 and 6813
Request for Reimbursement of Costs Was Untimely; Amaze Technologies, LLC–Costs, GAO B-419810.4
GAO Finds CIO-SP4 Solicitation Treats Mentor-Protege JVs Unequally And Unduly Restricts Competition; Computer World Services Corporation; CWS FMTI JV LLC, GAO B-419956.18 et al.
Protest, Which Essentially Challenged the Adequacy of a Debriefing, Failed to State a Valid Basis of Protest; SparkSoft Corporation, GAO B-420156, B-420156.2
Agency Didn’t Err in Removing Requirements from the 8(a) Program; TeamGoV, Inc., GAO B-419865.2, B-419865.3
Agency Reasonably Relied on Offeror’s Buy American Certification; Sea Box, Inc., GAO B-420130, B-420130.2
Court Can’t Hear Challenge to Size Determination Made in Connection With the Issuance of a Task Order; 22nd Century Technologies, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 21-1922C
Protester Can’t Overcome Past Performance Issues Caused by “Excessive Amount of Noxious Weeds”; Stevenson Intermountain Seed, Inc., GAO B-420086
Landlord, Not Postal Service, Has to Pay for Post Office’s Sewage Connection; Johnson Investors Limited Partnership v. United States Postal Service, PSBCA Nos. 6822 & 6839
Agency Should Have Found Awardee’s Ramshackle Restrooms Unacceptable; WRG Fire Training Simulation Solutions, Inc., GAO B-419480.3 et al.
Solicitation Provided Enough Information for Offerors to Compete Intelligently; BAE Systems Norfolk Ship Repair, Inc., GAO B-420065
Protester Can’t Manufacture Standing Through a Speculative Alternative Proposal; Blue Origin Federation, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 21-1695C
Ten-Day Protest Clock Began to Run Before Protester “Definitively” Knew Basis of Protest, Magnum Multimedia, GAO B-420227
Agency Not Obligated to Consider Information Outside Four Corners of Quotation; W.W. Grainger, Inc. GAO B-420045, B-40045.2
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