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Small Business that Earned 100% of Its Receipts from Another Company Was Not Economically Independent; Darton Innovative Technologies, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 21-856
Four Seasons or Four Seasons Total Landscaping? Protester Argued that Awardee’s Lease Proposal Was Unacceptable Because Offered Property Was in Run-Down Industrial Area, But Protester Proposed Property in the Same Neighborhood; Command and Control Construction, LLC, GAO B-419567
Agency Had Discretion to Designate 8(a) Procurement as Follow-On, Rather than New, Requirement; Unami, LLC, GAO B-419601
Protester Attempts to Use Late-Is-Late Rule as a Sword Against a Competitor (and Almost Succeeds), But Court Finds No Prejudice from Agency’s Acceptance of Late Proposal; KGL Food Service WLL v. United States, COFC No. 20-662C
Agency Not Obligated to Look for Past Performance Information Protester Didn’t Submit; F-2 Solutions, LLC, GAO B-418950.2, B-418950.3
GAO Is Cool with Agency Decision to Establish Single BPA Rather than Multiple BPAs; Active Deployment Systems, Inc., GAO B-419696
No Disparate Treatment Where Protester and Awardee Had Same Quantity of “Good” Ratings, But Awardee Had Higher Quality Ratings; Blue Water Thinking, LLC; AcesFed LLC, GAO B-41961.9 et al.
Agency Reasonably Limited “Interchanges” to Offerors that Had Potential to Provide the Best Value; PAE Aviation and Technical Services, LLC, GAO B-418828.3
Protest Challenging Agency’s Conduct of Ongoing Corrective Action is Premature; Systems Implementers, Inc., GAO B-418963.4
COFC Denies Motion to Dismiss Amazon’s Presidential Bias Theory in JEDI Protest; Amazon Web Services, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 19-1796C
GAO Sustains Protest of FSS Task Order, Finds Awardee Offered Services Outside the Scope of Its FSS Contract; Deloitte Consulting, LLP, GAO B-419508, B-419508.2
Although Ultimately Wrong, Agency’s Legal Position Was Reasonable When the Protest was Filed, So Protester Was Not Entitled to Costs; Brown Developments, LLC – Costs, GAO B-419279.2
No Problem with Agency’s Bundling of Requirements; Roche Diagnostics Corporation, GAO B-419510, B-419510.2
Agency Mislabeled the Solicitation But the Protester Waited too Long to Challenge the Error; US21, Inc., GAO B-419747
In Stinging Rebuke to Bill & Ted’s Excellent Model of Proposal Drafting, GAO Finds Agency Reasonably Assessed Weakness to Proposal that Listed Dead Historical Figures—Johannes Gutenberg and Nickola Tesla—as Essential Personnel; Trilogy Federal, LLC, GAO B-418461.11, B-418461.18
If the Solicitation Does Not Permit Proposal Revisions, the Agency Is Not Obligated to Conduct Discussions; Veteran Technology Partners III LLC, GAO B-418461, B-418461.20
Agency’s Post-Proposal Revisions to a Model Answer Used to Evaluate Sample Tasks Was Not Objectionable; Network Designs, Inc., GAO B-418461.7, B-418461.17
When Proposed Key Personnel Become Unavailable, Agency May Evaluate Proposal as Submitted Without Giving Offeror a Chance to Revise; PAE Applied Technologies, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 20-1557
Agency’s Alleged Clarifications Were Really Discussions But It Didn’t Matter Because Protester Was Not in Competitive Range; Trademasters Service, Inc., GAO B-418522.2 et al.
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