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GAO Recommends Reimbursement of All Protest Costs, Finds Challenges to Technical and Price Evaluations Intertwined with Meritorious OCI Arguments; Elemental Innovation d/b/a Halo Maritime Defense System, GAO B-419019.4
Violations of Express Solicitation Provisions Cannot Be Resolved with Clarifications; 22nd Century Technologies, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 20-1815C
GAO Unbothered by Awardee’s Lack of Active SAM Registration; Jade Excavation, Inc., GAO B-419515
Agency Miscalculated the Percentage Difference Between Proposed Prices, But It Didn’t Prejudice the Protester; UltiSat, Inc, GAO B-418769.2, B-4187698.3
GAO Finds that Protester Waited Too Long to File Protest; Peraton, Inc., GAO B-416916.11
Sole-Source Award Was Justified Where Only One Company Could Meet Agency’s Needs; Panasonic I-PRO Sensing Solutions Corporation of America, GAO B-419260
Protester Unable to Prove It Has Right to Use Boat Offered to the Navy; Omni2Max, GAO B-419445
Protester Uploaded Proposal Before Deadline But Failed to Properly Submit It In Time; People, Technology and Processes, LLC, GAO B-419385, B-419385.2
GAO Finds that Solicitation’s Certification Requirement Was Not Ambiguous; Mission1st Group, Inc., GAO B-419522
Contrary to Protester’s Contentions, Solicitation Requested, But Did Not Require, Past Performance References Completed Within the Last Three Years; Navarre Corporation, GAO B-419088.2
Protester Not Entitled to Costs for Simply Filing a Protest in the “Best Interest of the Government”; MidAmerica Fab and Machine, LLC—Costs, GAO B-419432.3
Protester Tried to Challenge Awardee’s Low Price, But Solicitation Did Not Permit Price Realism Evaluation; Appsential, LLC, GAO B-419046.2 et al.
In Protester’s Second Bite at the Apple, GAO Affirms that Agency Reasonably Considered Past Performance Not Included in Proposal; Wolff & Mueller Government Services GmbH & Company KG, GAO B-419431, B-419431.2
Protest Challening Agency’s Use of Other Transaction Authority Is Untimely; Spartan Medical, Inc., GAO B-419503
Court Permits Government to Assert Counterclaim Alleging that Contractor Gave Agency Official a Car In Exchange for Approving False Invoices; Square One Armoring Services Company v. United States, COFC Nos. 16-cv-124C, 263C
Not Much Protester Can Do to Salvage Deficient Proposal; ARCIS International-UNISECUR S.R.L.-RANGERS S.R.L. JV, GAO B-419481
Agency Threads Needle on Request for Costs: Initial Protest Argument Lacked Merit, and Agency Took Prompt Corrective Action in Response to Supplemental Arguments; Bay West, LLC—Costs; Bhate Zapata LLC—Costs, GAO B-418960.6, B-418960.7
Factual Issues Preclude Summary Judgment on Government’s Affirmative Release/Waiver Defense; Appeal of Shneez Veritas, LLC, ASBCA No. 62067
Agency Effectively Extended Proposal Deadline Even Though Amendment Extending Due Date Did Not Post Until After Deadline Passed; Zafer Taahut, Insaat ve Ticaret, A.S. v. United States, Fed. Cir. 2020-1726
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