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Protester Contends that Agency’s Use of Corporate Buzzwords and Business-Speak Makes Solicitation Too Vague, But GAO Disagrees; Federal Acquisition Services Team OASIS JV, LLC, GAO B-418776
Contracting in the Time of Cholera? Protester Appropriately Assigned a Weakness for Proposing Too Much Toilet Paper; Re-Engineered Business Solutions, Inc., GAO B-418640, B-418640.2
Contractor Needed More than Clarifications to Remedy Flaws in Its Proposal; SigNet Technologies, Inc., GAO B-418677
GAO Declines to Consider Question Concerning Awardee’s Small Business Status; DLF-CPC JV, LLC, GAO B-418581, B-418581.2
Government’s Substantially Justified Legal Argument Precludes Fee Award Under EAJA; The Green Technology Group v. United States, COFC No. 19-907C
Agency Properly Determined that Protester’s Past Performance References Not that Relevant; Al-Shahba General Contracting Establishment, GAO B-418697
“Heard It From a Friend Who, Heard It From a Friend Who, Heard It From Another You’ve Been Messin’ Around”: GAO Tells Protester to Take It on the Run, Dismisses Speculative, Hearsay-Based Protest; Mitchco International, Inc., GAO B-418481.3, B-418481.4
Post-Protest Explanations Can’t Fill the Gaps in a Flawed Proposal; Perspecta Enterprise Solutions, LLC, GAO B-418533.2, B-418533.3
GAO Identifies the Lacunae In Agency’s Swiss Cheese Evaluation; Avionic Instruments LLC, GAO B-418604, B-418604.2
No Disparate Price Evaluation When the Flaws in the Protester’s Price Quote Far Exceeded the Flaws in the Awardee’s Quote; Qwest Government Services, Inc. d/b/a CenturyLink QGS, GAO B-418649 et al.
Agency Precipitously Removed Requirement from SBA’s 8(a) Business Development Program; Eminent IT, LLC, GAO B-418570 et al.
GAO Castigates Agency for Inadequately Documenting its Evaluation and Concocting Feeble, Post-Hoc Rationalizations for its Conclusions; Leumas Residential, LLC, GAO B-418635
Protester Not Prejudiced by Task Order Solicitation Outside the Scope of Underlying IDIQ Contract; American Systems Group, GAO B-418667
Just Because the Protester Can Conceive of a More Efficient Production Schedule Doesn’t Mean the Solicitation is Unduly Restrictive; Colonial Press International, Inc., GAO B-418718
Protester Tries (and Fails) to Argue that Deficiencies Introduced Into Its Revised Proposal Were the Result of Misleading Discussions; General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc., GAO B-418533
Protester Can’t Overcome Its Failure to Satisfy Multiple Mandatory Requirements; Protests of Frequentis USA, Inc., FAA, 19-ODRA-00866
Protester Denied Discovery Into Agency’s Alleged Bad Faith; Quantico Tactical Inc. v. United States, COFC Nos. 20-120C & 20-150C
Agency Reasonably Rejected a Proposal that Could Only Be Read on a Mac Computer; Diversified Services Group, Inc.; GAO B-418375.2
GAO Sends Protester Who Didn’t Address Solicitation Requirements Packing; Wisconsin Physician Service Insurance Corporation, GAO B-418580
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