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GAO Recommends Costs for All Protester’s Arguments, Finds They Were Intertwined with Clearly Meritorious Argument; Odyssey Systems Consulting Group, Ltd—Costs, GAO B-419730.5
Agency Erred in Assessing Strength for Feature Awardee Didn’t Propose; MetroStar Systems, Inc., GAO B-419890, B-419890-.2
Solicitation’s Submission Instructions Were Confusing, and Protester Failed to Timely Challenge Defect; Continuity Global Solutions-SPP Security Joint Venture, GAO B-419997
Despite Protester’s Contentions, GAO Finds Agency Didn’t Treat Incumbency as a Weakness; INNOVIUM, LLC, GAO B-419912, B-419912.2
Ground Control to Major Tom, SpaceX’s Lunar Landing Contract’s On; Blue Origin Federation, LLC; Dynetics, Inc.-A Leidos Company, GAO B-419783 et al.
Disclosure of Unredacted Protest to Awardee’s Staff Not that Big of a Deal; Midnight Sun-Centennial Kirratchiaq JV, LLC, GAO B-419934 et al.
COFC Finds Awardee Waited Too Long to Intervene in Protest; SAGAM Securite Senegal v. United States, COFC No. 21-1138C
Requiring Offerors to Disclose Identity of Customers Is Not Unduly Restrictive; Tata American International Corporation, GAO B-419956.8
GAO Can’t Hear Protest When Procuring Entity Is Not a Federal Agency; Qwest Government Services, Inc. d/b/a CenturyLink QGS, GAO B-420095
The Thrill Is Gone: Jilted Incumbent Can’t Convince Agency (or GAO) that Company’s Still Got It Going On; Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., GAO B-419860, B-419860.2
GAO Concludes It’s OK to Purchase “IT,” as Opposed to “IT Services,” Through LPTA Procurement; Coast to Coast Computer Products, Inc, GAO B-419833.2
Protester Tries (and Fails) to Argue Self-Negating Tautology: “I’m Not Making a Price Realism Argument, I’m Just Sayin’ the Awardee’s Low Price Indicates an Unfeasible Approach”; Innovative Management Concepts, Inc., GAO B-419834.2, B-419834.3
Employee of Subcontractor Can’t Prove He Had an Implied-in-Fact Contract with the Government; Frank Calapristi v. United States, COFC No. 18-612
Awardee Satisfied Solicitation’s Certification Requirement; First American Business Solutions, GAO B-420002
Agency Disregarded Solicitation, Conceived of a Different Cost Evaluation Method, and Failed to Meaningfully Assess Costs Between Competing Proposals; Africa Automotive Distribution Services, Ltd., GAO B-418246.6
“Why’d You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated?”: Certification Requirement in Solicitation Was Not Unduly Restrictive; KPaul Properties, LLC, GAO B-419893, B-419893.6
GAO Reaffirms Difference Between Experience and Past Performance—Offeror Can Have High Experience Rating While Lacking Relevant Past Performance; Primary Care Solutions, Inc. GAO B-418799.3, B-418799.4
Agency Reasonably Found that Past Performance in Hawaii, Alaska and Guam Was More Relevant for Contract in Continental U.S. than for Contract In Europe; Fidelity Decypher Services, LLC GAO B-418542.2, B-418542.3
COFC Stands Athwart the Tide of Blue & Gold Creep and Says “Stop”; VS2, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 21-1028C
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