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‘Tis But a Mere Technicality: Protester Proposed an Alleged Incumbent Employee for a Required Position Who Never Worked for the Company; NLT Management Services, LLC, GAO B-415936.11 et al.
Information in Solicitation May Have Been Incomplete But It Was Sufficient for Offerors to Make Intelligent Bids; Trademasters Service, Inc., GAO B-418546
ASBCA Denies Government’s Summary Judgment Motion, Refuses to Weigh Evidence Before Trial; Appeals of Conquistador Dorado Joint Venture, ASBCA Nos. 60042 et al.
Protester’s Dawdling Results in Loss of Right to Request Reimbursement of Protest Costs; High Noon Unlimited, Inc.—Costs, GAO B-417830.3
Agency Fumbled Corrective Action By Making Material Changes to Evaluation Methodology Without Allowing Offerors to Submit Revised Proposals; Computer World Services Corporation, GAO B-418287.3
Protester Waited Too Long to Challenge Intended Sole-Source Contract; AGMA Security Service, Inc., GAO B-418647
Awardee’s Use of Compressed Line Spacing in Proposal’s Text Did Not Run Afoul of Solicitation’s Page Formatting Requirements; CACI, Inc.—Federal, GAO B-418110.3 et al.
Agency Appropriately Evaluated Past Performance by Considering Quality Rather than Quantity of Offerors’ References; LATA-Atkins Technical Services, LLC, GAO B-418602, B-418602.4
Despite Agency’s Provocative Metaphysical Distinction Between a Contractor-Subcontractor Relationship and the Bond Between Subsidiaries, Provision that Precluded Subcontractor from Satisfying Certification Requirement Was Unduly Restrictive; Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., GAO B-418449
“I’m Kind of a Big Deal . . . I Have Many Leather-Bound Books and my Apartment Smells of Rich Mahogany”: Key Person’s Impressive, Credentialed Background Did Not Merit a Significant Strength; Navarro Research and Engineering, Inc., GAO B-418602.2, B-418602.5
Protester’s Challenges to Solicitation Crash into Ditch of Futility; Trademasters Service, Inc., GAO B-418522
You’re Not my Huckleberry: Agency Appropriately Rejected Proposal Due to Key Person’s Lack of Hands-On Experience; Facility Services Management, Inc., GAO B-418526 et al.
Agency Did Not Err in Using the Incumbent’s Quote to Establish the Government Estimate; CDS Services, Inc. GAO B-418376.2
Supplemental Protest Alleging that Agency Failed to Identify Technical Strengths Is Untimely; Jacobs Polar Services-CH2M Facility Support Services, GAO B-418390.2 et al.
Agency Reasonably Cancelled Solicitation that Did Not Satisfy Its Needs; Alliance Technology Group, LLC, GAO B-418558
No Costs for Unsuccessful Protest Arguments That Were Not Related to or Intertwined with Successful Argument; BluePath Labs, LLC –Costs, GAO B0417960.4
“But First, Are You Experienced?”: Agency Justified in Rejecting Proposal Due to Lack of Corporate Experience; NIKA Technologies, Inc., GAO B-418563
Allegation that Awardee’s Proposed Item Are Not Energy-Efficient Fizzles; Alvarez, LLC, GAO B-418367.6, B-418367.7
Federal Circuit Holds that Protest Challenging Agency’s Disclosure of Information to Offerors Is Barred by Blue & Gold—Dissent Questions Whether Blue & Gold Is Still Valid; Inserso Corporation v. United States, Fed. Cir. 2019-1933
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