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Bidders Didn’t Complain About Patent Ambiguity in Solicitation, But Agency Still Rightly Cancelled It; Young’s General Contracting, Inc., GAO B-418717.3
Agency Misevaluated Key Personnel, But Protester’s Price Was Unreasonably High, So the Error Didn’t Matter; Dust Busters Plus, LLC, GAO B-419853.7
Agency’s Mistake Didn’t Prejudice Protester; ACI Technologies, Inc. v. United States, COFC No 18-860C
Communication Breakdown: Agency Muffed Evaluation by Failing to Inform Protester of Significant Weakness During Discussions; Sunglim Engineering & Construction Company, Ltd., GAO B-419067.3
Solicitation Didn’t Mandate Price Realism Analysis, So Agency Couldn’t Perform One; Inbound, LLC, GAO B-419853.5
Agency Appropriately Cancelled Solicitation So It Could Seek More Bids to Increase Competition; Carl R. Jones Excavating & Hauling, LLC, GAO B-419717.4
Court Finds that Price Realism Analysis Was “a Strange Mess of the Government’s Own Making”; CW Government Travel, Inc. A/K/A CWTSatoTravel v. United States, COFC No. 21-1354C
Incumbent Protester Can’t Complain that Agency Failed to Compare Proposed Compensation to Incumbent Compensation When It Refused to Provide Agency with Incumbent Rates; Criterion Systems, Inc., GAO B-419749 et al.
Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200: Court Finds PIA Violation, Directs Agency to Disqualify Offeror that Received Information from Protester’s Proposal; SAGAM Securite Senegal v. United States, COFC No. 21-1138C
No Unequal Discussions When Agency Was Only Seeking Clarifications; E3 Federal Solutions, LLC d/b/a Avantus Federal, GAO B-419712, B-419712.2
Protester’s Unstated Criteria Argument Could “Not Withstand Logical Scrutiny”; Federal Acquisition Services Team OASIS JV, LLC, GAO B-418776.6, B-418776.7
Agency Did Not Err in Finding Protester’s Price, Which Was 194% Greater than Government Estimate, Unreasonable; NTT Data Services Federal Government, LLC, GAO B-419197.2
Down Select Did Not Create a Competitive Range; APC Construction, LLC, GAO B-419771
GAO Finds Agency Phoned-In OCI Investigation; Steel Point Solutions, LLC, GAO B-419709, B-419709.2
Legislative Change that Reduced Rent Paid to Contractor Not a Breach; United Communities, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 20-1220C
Agency’s Change of Course During Corrective Action Was Not Fraud on the Court; Clarke Health Care Products, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 20-413C
Agency Misconstrues Protester’s Approach, Disparately Evaluates Quotations, Loses Protest; Mayvin, Inc., GAO B-419301.6, B-418301.7
Even If It Existed, Alleged Implied Contract Would Have Contravened Federal Regulations; 6601 Dorchester Investment Group, LLC v United States, COFC No. 20-1427C
Agency Didn’t Properly Evaluate Awardee’s Professional Compensation Plan; The Bionetics Corporation, GAO B-419727
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