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An Agency and Awardee Do Not Have a Common Interest in Crafting the Scope of a Corrective Action; Peraton, Inc., GAO B-416916.5, B-416916.7
Sole-Source Award Justified By “Unusual and Compelling Urgency”; SSI Technology, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 19-1947
Protest Premised on Superficial Comparison of Adjectival Ratings Implodes; AKAL Security, Inc, GAO B-417840.4
It Pays to Pay Attention: Agency Report Should Have Flagged Protester to Additional Protest Grounds; GAO B-418068, Applied Sciences & Information Systems Inc.
Solicitation Did Not Provide Enough Information for Offerors to Intelligently Propose Staffing; ASRC Federal Data Network Technologies, LLC; Ekagra Partners, LLC, GAO B-418085.4
Agency Can Base Competitive Range Solely on Price; GAO B-418448, Regency Enterprises Services LLC
Agency Reasonably Restricted Competition to Offerors Whose FSS Contracts Would Extend Through Lengthy Life of BPA: GAO B-418405, Information Innovators Inc.; NARTech Inc.; 22nd Century Technologies Inc.
“You Talkin’ to Me?” Exchanges with Awardee Regarding Small Business Subcontracting Plan Did Not Amount to Discussions; Hanford Integrated Infrastructure Services Contractor, LLC, GAO B-418411 et al.
Agency Not Obligated to Ignore Incumbent’s Negative Past Performance Just Because the Company Instituted “Performance Improvements”; Sterling Medical Associates, Inc., GAO B-418384, B-418384.2
Court in Patent Infringement Case Against Government Issues Notice to Non-Parties Using Patented Technology In Government Contracts; Science Applications International Corp. v. United States, COFC No. 17-CV-00825C
Motion for TRO Premature When Contents of Claim Not Yet Settled; COFC No. 19-1610C, BHB Ltd. Partnership & Indiana Associates Ltd. Partnership of Washington D.C. v. United States and RPT 1425 New York Avenue LLC
Proposals May Contain Multitudes: Agency Didn’t Err in Assigning a Strength and a Risk to the Same Feature of Protester’s Proposal; Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 19-1421C
Unsolicited Proposal Offered Solution That Was Neither Unique Nor Innovative; GAO B-416685.6, M3 Partners, LLC
GAO Rejects Protester’s Hasty Generalization: Awardee’s Alleged Noncompliance with Past Contract Does Not Mean It Won’t Comply With Current Contract; Ace-Federal Reporters, Inc., GAO B-417846.4, B-417846.5
Awardee That Lost Protest and Lost Award Not Entitled to a Stay Pending Appeal; HVF West, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 19-1308C
Challenge to Solicitation Term Futile When Contractor Can’t Satisfy Other Requirements; GAO B-418494, DGCI Corporation
“Won’t You Stay With Me, Cause You’re All I Need”: Challenge to Override of CICA Stay Fails to Persuade; STG, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 20-283C
Try Harder! Agency Not Required to Make More of an Effort to Locate Protester’s Past Performance Information; ValidaTek-CITI, LLC, GAO B-418320.2
Lawyer’s Government Contracts Experience Is Not Distinctive Knowledge or a Specialized Skill that Justifies Fee Award in Excess of EAJA’s Statutory Cap; 2M Research Services, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 17-1638
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