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Protester Can’t Submit Project It Has Not Yet Performed as Prior Experience; Creoal Consulting, LLC,GAO B-419460, B-419460.2
Protester Alleged that Cost Realism Analysis Was Flawed But Failed to Identify Specific Problem with the Evaluation; OBXtek, Inc, GAO B-419478, B-419478.2
Protester Claims Agency “Lost Proposal in the Electronic Ether,” But COFC Finds Protester Can’t Prove It Properly Submitted Proposal; Naval Systems, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 20-1539C
FAA’s ODRA Finds Agency Improperly Waived an “Extraordinarily Disturbing” OCI, Recommends Agency Consider Debarment or Suspension of Awardee; Protest of SGT, Inc., FAA No. 20-ODRA-00872
COFC Effectively Reverses GAO, Finds Flaws in Agency’s Past Performance, Price, and Technical Evaluations; Mortgage Contracting Services, LLC v. United States, COFC NO. 20-1230C
Protester Had Sufficient Notice of Agency’s Plan to Conduct Procurement Under the FAR’s Simple Acquisition Procedures; Colonna’s Shipyard, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 20-1385
Government Not Required to Pay Contractor’s Assignee Until Agency Receives Notice of the Assignment; Allied Meridian Funding, LLC. v. Department of Agriculture, CBCA 6893
GAO Sustains Protest, Finds that Agency Overrated Awardee, Underrated the Protester, and Botched the Best Value Determination; TekSynap Corporation, GAO B-419464, B-419464.2
COFC Reaffirms that Runway Extension Act’s 5-Year Look-Book Period Does Not Apply to SBA’s Size Standards; Obsidian Solutions Group, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 20-1602C
Agency Properly Rejected an Expired Proposal; Cydecor, Inc., GAO B-418165.5
GAO Not Required to Advise Agency that It Failed to Adequately Support Its Arguments; Department of the Army—Reconsideration and Clarification of Remedy, GAO B-419150.2
Not In My House: COFC Lacks Jurisdiction to Hear Protest Against Administrative Office of U.S. Courts; Microgenics Corporation v. United States, COFC No. 21-896C
Protester, Who Submitted Proposal In Response to Initial Solicitation, Was Not Appropriate Party to Challenge Agency’s Decision to Amend, Rather than Cancel, Solicitation; RELYANT Global, LLC, GAO B-418693.7
Mathematical Error in Government Estimate Did Not Negate Cost Realism Evaluation; Quanterion Solutions, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 20-1266C
Right Place, Wrong Time: GAO Finds that Protester’s Arguments Were Essentially Untimely Challenges to the Solicitation; AGMA Security Service, Inc., GAO B-419443
GAO Declines to Find that Awardee Engaged In Bait-and-Switch with Members of Scientific Advisory Board; CDIC, Inc., GAO B-419254, B-419254.2
Court Grants Motion to Supplement Protest Record, Finds that Additional Declarations Will Help Explicate Voluminous Technical Data; Mail Transportation, Inc. et al. v. United States, COFC No. 17-943C
GAO Denies Challenge to Best Value Decision, Finding Protest Was “Bereft of Analysis”; Ajanta Consulting LLC, GAO B-419523, B-419523.2
Protester’s Proposal, Which Contained Deficiencies, Could Not Serve as Benchmark for Assessing Price Reasonableness; Adams Communication & Engineering Technology, Inc., GAO B-419052
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