Articles
🔒 Members Only · Protests & Claims BriefYou’ve reached the member portion of this brief.Members read the full analysis and the source documents in every Brief, six days a week.
Protest Challenging Corrective Action Is Premature; Cooper/Ports America, LLC, GAO B-419000.2
“These Are Not the Droids You’re Looking For”: Protester Unable to Convince GAO that Language Mandating that a “Gravel Driveway Shall Be Provided” Did Not Actually Require a Driveway; KMK Construction, Inc., GAO B-418639.2
Disagreement with Agency’s Take Does Not a Protest Make; KIRA Training Services, LLC, GAO B-419149.2, B-419149.3
Protester Can’t Rely on Incumbency to Fill Gaps in Proposal; Stargates, Inc., GAO B-419349 et al.
Challenge to Past Performance Evaluation Comes to Nothing; Trace Systems, Inc., GAO B-419323
But I Said the Magic Words . . . Agency Entitled to Reject Proposal that Simply Restated Solicitation Requirements; Zolon PCS, LLC, GAO B-419283
Agency Not Required to Verify Claims Made in Awardee’s Proposal; Metson Marine Services, Inc., GAO B-4129114.2, B0-419114.3
Protester Can’t Recover Costs for Initial Protest Arguments that Were Contradicted by Its Meritorious Supplemental Protest Arguments; NARCORPS Specialties, LLC—Costs, GAO B-418971.4
GAO Refuses to Consider (or to Reconsider) Argument Raised by Offeror Who Had Not Actually Filed a Protest; RCG of North Carolina, LLC—Reconsideration, GAO B-418824.4
Federal Circuit Clarifies that If Protester Does Not Seek Enhanced Debriefing, then Five-Day Deadline for Invoking CICA Stay Applies; Nika Technologies, Inc. v. United States, Fed. Cir. 2020-1924
Sure, I’ll Talk, But Let’s Keep It Light: Agency Thought Exchanges with Offerors Were Superficial, But It Ended Up Conducting Discussions; GOV National Healthcare Drive, LLC, GAO B-419258 et al.
The Unbearable Lightness of Disagreeing: COFC Rejects Arguments that Mostly Amount to Disagreement with Agency’s Evaluation Conclusions; Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC and Snap, Inc. v. United States, COFC Nos. 20-1300 and 20-1318
Protester Argues Solicitation Criteria are Flabby and Permit Consideration of Inexperienced Offerors—GAO Finds Argument Is Really Just an Attempt to Eliminate Competition; Accenture Federal Services, LLC, GAO B-418321.4
Failing to Inform Agency of Unavailability of Non-key Personnel Not a Material Misrepresentation; Perspecta Enterprise Solutions, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 814
Agency Within Its Rights to Reject Proposal that Did Not Provide Evidence of Adequate Accounting System; NCI Information Systems, Inc., GAO B-419322, B-419322.2
No Problem with Agency Exercising Option Instead of Awarding New Contract; M&C Venture Group, LLC, GAO B-419270
Protester Can’t Convince GAO that Matter of Responsibility Is One of Responsiveness; Butt Construction Company, Inc., GAO B-4190156.2
Court Finds that Agency Capriciously Cancelled Solicitation; PGLS, LLC d/b/a Piedmont Global Language Solutions v. United States, COFC No. 20-1023, 20-1068
Incumbent’s Program Manager and Evaluator Were Facebook “Friends” But Relationship Did Not Create Conflict of Interest; D&G Support Services, LLC, GAO B-419245, B-419245.3
Keep reading
