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Proposal’s Weaknesses Not Weak Enough to Merit Discussions; Education Development Center, Inc.; GAO B-418217, B-418217.2
Confused Courier No Excuse for Late Proposal; Vizocom, GAO B-418246.2
Other Than a General “I-Know-It-When-I-See-It” Argument, Protester Unable to Identify Specific Reason Awardee’s Price Was Unrealistically Low; RELI Group, Inc., GAO B-418005
Agency’s Superficial and Conclusory OCI Investigation Results in a Sustained Protest; Inquiries, Inc., GAO B-417415.2
Agency’s Discussions Did Not Coerce Protester Into Raising Its Price; Quality Control International, LLC, GAO B-417984
How an Agency Loses a Protest and Alienates Offerors: (1) Invent a Solicitation Requirement, (2) Find Offerors Met Requirement Even Though Proposals Didn’t Contemplate It, (3) Adjust Prices to Reflect Cost of Non-Existent Requirement; PMSI, LLC d/b/a Optum Workers’ Compensation Services of Florida, GAO B-417237 et al.
Agency Erred By Re-Procuring After Default Instead of Conducting a New Competition; Steel Point Solutions, LLC, GAO B-418224, B-418224.2
Protester Cannot Complain that Awardee’s Pricing Structure Was Improper When Protester Used the Same Structure; Raytheon Company, GAO B-417524.2, B-417524.3
Agency Decision to Not Set Aside Procurement for Veteran-Owned Businesses Was Unreasonable; Academy Medical, LLC, GAO B-418223, B-418223.2
Corrective Action Allowing Unrestricted Proposal Revisions Unobjectionable Even Though Awardee’s Price and Technical Rating Had Been Disclosed to Other Offerors; DynCorp International LLC, GAO B-417704.5
Quelle Horreur!: Protester’s Attempt to Castigate Agency for Failing To Understand Proposal About as Successful as an Adam Sandler Movie at Cannes; Caddell Construction Co. (DE), LLC v. United States, COFC No. 19-1568C
Argument that Agency Can’t Justify Fixed- Price Contract for a Call Center Fails to Connect; Prairie Quest, Inc., GAO B-417573.2
Is There Any Way to Earn Extra Credit?: Agency Did Not Err in Failing to Assess Proposal Under an Introductory Paragraph in the Solicitation that Was Not an Evaluation Criterion; ZolonTech, Inc., GAO B-418213, B-418213.2
Them’s the Breaks: Even If Familiar With Protester’s Experience, Agency Has No Obligation to Consider that Experience If It’s Not Included in Protester’s Technical Proposal; BEAT, LLC, GAP B-418235, B-418235.2
Evaluators’ Failure to Consider Proposal’s Features A-OK Because Those Features Were Not a Factor in the Source Selection Decision; InuTeq, LLC, GAO B-416710.3, B-416710.4
Agency Reasonably Rejected Highest-Rated, Lowest-Priced Proposal Due To Unrealistic Price; Integrity Management Consulting, Inc., GAO B-417942
Agency Acted Judiciously in Cancelling Solicitation that Did Not Meet Its Needs; G2 Global Solutions, LLC, GAO B-416981.5
Federal Circuit Confirms that Pills Manufactured in the U.S. that Contain an Active Ingredient from India Are Not Products of India for Purposes of the Trade Agreements Act; Acetris Health, LLC v. United States, Fed. Cir. No. 2018-2399
Protester Facially Satisfied Requirements of Blue & Gold But Still Waived It Pre-Award Protest; Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 19-674
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