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Protester Booted for Not Properly Certifying Its Non-Use of Covered Chinese Telecommunications Equipment and Services; MicroTechnologies, LLC, GAO B-418700
Agency Not Required to Infer that Proposed Key Person Possesses Experience Not Listed in the Proposal; VSolvit, LLC, GAO B-418265.2, B-418265.3
Protester’s Size, for Purposes of Statutory Cap on Attorneys’ Fees, Is Determined at the Time Protest Is Filed; Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC –Costs, GAO B-417475.7
Agency Not Required to Deduce Relevancy of Past Performance Reference From General Statements in Proposal; Patriot Defense Group, LLC, GAO B-418720.3
Solicitation Seeking Task Order for Cloud-Based Platform with AI Capabilities Within Scope of Systems, Engineering, Technology, and Innovation (SETI) IDIQ Contract; C3, ai, Inc., GAO B-418676
Cancellation of Solicitation Not a Ruse to Avoid Litigating a Bid Protest; Qbase, LLC, GAO B-417371.4, B-417371.5
COFC Effectively Affirms GAO Decision Finding that Offeror’s Participation in Prior Development Contract Did not Create Conflict in Procurement for Production Contract; AAR Manufacturing v. United States, COFC No. 20-459
COFC Wades Into Massive Case Consolidating Seven Protests, Decides Not to Second-Guess Agency’s Conclusions in Highly-Technical SETI Procurement; Technology Innovation Alliance et al. v. United States, COFC Nos. 19-1115C et al.
Protester Improperly (and Implausibly) Interpreted a Solicitation Requirement as a Ceiling So That Any Amount Proposed Below the Requirement Satisfied the Requirement; Sarandrea Associates Group Corporation, GAO B-418728
GAO Denies Costs for Protest that Was Not Only Not Clearly Meritorious But Had “No Merit At All”; Zeneth Technology Partners, B-418571.6
Protest Based on Misinterpretation of Solicitation Was Not Clearly Meritorious for Purposes of Cost Reimbursement; Sumaria Systems, Inc. –Costs, GAO B-418440.3
“I Feel Pretty, Oh So Pretty”: Protester Not Prejudiced By Agency’s Failure to Assess Additional Strengths When Proposal Already Had Highest Possible Rating; MVM, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 20-235C
Trust Me, I’m Good for It: Company, Whose Parent Was Operating at a Loss, Unable to Prove It’s a Responsible Contractor; American Energy Logistics Solutions, LLC, GAO B-417844.3
GAO Quickly Rids Itself of Bizarre Protest Involving Elaborate Relationship Between Protester and Awardee; Perimeter Solutions, GAO B-418687
ICE ICE Baby: Protester Alleges “If There Was a Problem Yo I’ll Solve It” But ICE’s Misleading Discussions Had Me “Checking Out the Hook While the DJ Revolved It”—GAO Finds Protester Failed to “Stop, Collaborate, and Listen”; CoreCivic, Inc., GAO B-418620, B-418620.2
“It’s Not that I Don’t Want to Talk to You—I Don’t Want to Talk to Anyone”: Agency Reasonably Decided to Not Hold Discussions; Omni2H, LLC, GAO B-418655
Past Contract’s Higher Dollar Value Doesn’t Make It a More Relevant Reference; Goldschmitt and Associates, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 20-469C
COFC Finds that Scope of Corrective Action Not Limited to Redressing Error Identified in Protest—Agency May Also Use Corrective Action to Improve Procurement Process; ANHAM FZCO v. United States, COFC 19-1891C
Failure to Include Required Key Personnel Information in the Key Personnel Section of Proposal Consigns Bid to the Reject Pile; Dawson Solutions, LLC, GAO B-418587, B-418567.2
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