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Solicitation that Required Awardee to Enter Agreements With Third Parties Was Consistent with Customary Commercial Practices; Sterisyn, Inc., GAO B-4168366 et al.
Alleged Unstated Criteria Were Encompassed by Stated Criteria; Pond Constructors, Inc., GAO B-418403
Evaluation that Failed to Qualitatively Assess Proposals a Little Too Perfunctory for GAO’s Taste; CEdge Software Consultants, LLC, GAO B-418128.2
Bidder With Highest Price Among Acceptable Proposals Lacked Standing to Protest Award in LPTA Procurement; Eskridge & Associates v. United States, Fed. Cir. No. 109-1862
Even If Agency Disparately Waived Solicitation Requirement, Protester Couldn’t Complain Because its Proposal Was Still Unacceptable Under a Different Requirement; Airline Data Inc., LLC, GAO B-418472
Agency Had Discretion to Consider Magnitude, and Not Just Quantity, of Strengths Assigned to Offerors; American Relocation Connections, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 19-1874
Protester Waited Too Long to Object to Alleged Consultant Conflict of Interest; General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc., GAO B-417616.2 et al.
Rule of Two Not Satisfied When the Only Two SDVOSBs are Affiliated and Owned by the Same Person; MCI Diagnostic Center, LLC, GAO B-417901.3
No Impaired Objectivity OCI Where Awardee Would Not Evaluate Its Own Work; GovernmentCIO, LLC, GAO B-418363 et al.
Protester’s Incumbency Status Does Not Give It a Pass on Responding to Transition Plan Requirement; InGenesis, Inc., GAO B-416564.3
Offeror’s Participation in Development of Item Being Procured Did Not Create OCI; AAR Manufacturing Inc., GAO B-418339
Solicitation Did Not Require a Realism Evaluation, so Protest Challenging Lack of Realism Evaluation is D.O.A.; Abacus Technology Corporation, GAO B-417749.2, B-417749.3
Awardee’s Approach to Professional Compensation—High Wages, Low Fringe Benefits—Did Not Create Risk of Unsuccessful Performance; Engility Services, LLC, GAO B-416588.3, B-416588.4
Agency Reasonably Found Protester’s Rock Bottom Prices Unrealistic; ACTA, LLC, GAO B-418352, B-418352.2
“We go together like rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong”: Costs Warranted for Protest Argument That Was Not Severable from Other Clearly Meritorious Arguments; Global Linguist Solutions, LLC—Costs, GAO B-417015.19
“By the Time I Get to Arizona”: Key Person’s Relocation to Tucson Doesn’t Mean He’s Unavailable; NCI Information Systems, Inc., GAO B-417805.5 et al.
Failure to Submit Readable File to GAO’s EPDS Leaves Protester S.O.L.; SAK Management Consulting, GAO B-418516
Flaws in Evaluation Criteria Justified Cancellation of Solicitation; Virtual Medical Group, LLC, GAO B-418386
Agency Ignores Solicitation, Devises New Price Reasonableness Analysis, Loses Protest; Fluor Intercontinental, Inc. v. United States, COFC Nos. 19-1580, 19-1585
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