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Federal Circuit Doesn’t Let GSA Wriggle Out of Real Estate Taxes Owed to Contractor; NOAA Maryland, LLC v. Administrator of the General Services Administration, Fed. Cir. 2020-1548
Protest Challenging Award of “Transport-of-Deceased” Services Contract Succumbs Under GAO Scrutiny; Blackhawk Medical Transportation, Inc., d/b/a Vandenberg Ambulance, GAO B-419465.2, B-419465.3
Proposal Was Late and Ineligible Even Though Agency Evaluated It; D B Systems, GAO B-419542
GAO Finds Procurement Plagued by Application of Unstated Criteria, Insufficient Documentation of Ratings, and a Botched Best Value Decision; FreeAlliance.com, LLC; Radus Software LLC/Radus CTA; Mobomo, LLC, GAO B-419201.3 et al.
Agency Properly Rejected Proposal Due to Lack of Security of Clearance; Tridentis, LLC, GAO B-418690.4
GAO Reaffirms that Agency’s Decision to Not Exercise Options is Not a Procurement; VanderHouwen & Associates, GAO B-419706
GAO Finds that Continuity Errors Are Not Just a Problem for B Movies; Soft Tech Consulting, Inc., GAO B-419488 et al.
Protester’s Failure to Notify Navy of Subcontractor’s Corporate Transaction Deep-Sixes Proposal; Morgan Business Consulting, LLC, GAO B-418165.6, B-418165.9
Agency Did Not Err in Finding Protester’s Experience as Incumbent “Quaffable But Not Transcendent”; A-P-T Research, Inc., GAO B-419459
Agency Held Unequal Exchanges By Only Allowing the Awardee to Revise Its Proposal; AECOM Management Services, Inc., GAO B-418828.4 et al.
GAO Rejects Challenge to Conduct of Discussions as Futile—Even If Protester Had Been Able to Address Shortcomings in Proposal, Its Standing Would Not Have Improved; GAO B-419271.4, Qwest Government Services, Inc. d/b/a CenturyLink QGS
Corrective Action Did Not Address Merits of Every Argument Raised in Protest, But that Didn’t Mean the Agency Failed to Take Meaningful Corrective Action; ORBIS Sibro, Inc., GAO B-418165.7 et al.
Protester Alleged that Awardee Proposed Wrong Color Scheme, But GAO Found Scheme Did not Offend Solicitation; Shuttlewagon Inc., GAO B-419518 et al.
GAO Finds Proposal Deserved the C Grade It Received; MiMoCloud, GAO B-419482
GAO Confronts Enduring, Vexatious Question that Has Confounded Our Best Minds for Generations: Is Greenland In Europe or North America?; Vectrus Systems Corporation, GAO B- 419143, B-419143.2
Protester Alleges that Anything Less than the Highest Past Performance Rating Simply Won’t Do, But GAO Leaves Company Languishing on the Fainting Couch; Zolon PCS, LLC, GAO B-418626.8
Solicitation Subverted Intent of SBA’s Mentor-Protégé Regulations and Contained an Inscrutable, Undefined Requirement; Innovate Now, LLC, GAO B-419546
“There is Filth on the Floor and It Must Be Scraped Up with the Muck Rake”: Agency Not Required Hunt Down and Investigate Negative News Articles Concerning Offerors; Cotton & Company, LLP, GAO B-418380.4
“What’s the Frequency Kenneth?” Solicitation for Radio Test Equipment Did Not Create De Facto Sole-Source Acquisition; Tel-Instrument Electronics Corporation, GAO B-419529, B-419529.2
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