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Incumbent That Received Highest Past Performance Rating Was Nonetheless Reasonably Excluded from the Competitive Range, Salem Community Hospital dba Salem Regional Medical Center, GAO B-418037
Failure to Reconvene Evaluation Team As Part of Corrective Action Not Prejudicial Error Because SSA Has Discretion to Disregard Evaluators’ Findings; Battelle Memorial Institute, GAO B. 416263.5.
Government Liable for Fees Contractor Incurred in Defending a Qui Tam Suit; The Tolliver Group, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 17-1763C
Protester’s Decision to Respond to PWS Objectives with High-Level Tables Instead of Narratives a Calamitous Faux Pas; Logistics Management Institute, GAO B-418160, B-418160.2
“Hey Look Ma, I’m a Supervisor!”: GAO Finds that Oversight of Personnel Is Unnecessary to Satisfy “Supervisory Experience” Requirement—Supervision of Equipment and Activities Is Sufficient; Rig Masters, Inc., GAO B-417374.5, B-417374.6
GAO Reverses Itself Because It Applied the Wrong Legal Standard In a Costs Decision; Voith Hydro, Inc.—Costs—Reconsideration, GAO B-416243.5
GAO Finds that Argument Alleging Unequal Access OCI Is the Legal Equivalent of Angel Food Cake—Superficially Enticing But Ultimately Airy and Unfulfilling; Absolute Business Solutions, Inc., GAO B-418184
I’m Still Standing: Protester With Technically Unacceptable Proposal Still An Interested Party to Challenge Price Reasonableness Evaluation; Root9B, LLC, GAO B-417801, B-417801.2
Protester That Filed Two Protests, Which Prompted Two Corrective Actions, Not Entitled to Reimbursement of Protest Costs; Columbia Ancillary Services, Inc., GAO B-416800.4
GAO Finds Meritorious Protest Grounds Intertwined With Non-Meritorious Grounds Entitling Protester to All Its Protest Costs; WorldWide Language Resources, Inc. – Costs, GAO B-417015.6
Protester Fails to Timely Challenge Terms of “Borderline Nonsensical,” “Rorschach Test” Solicitation But Still Prevails Because Agency Ignored Solicitation’s Evaluation Process; HVF West, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 19-1308C
GAO Unimpressed by Protester’s “You-Can’t-Improve-On-Perfection” Argument; Aderas, Inc., GAO B-418151
Agency Reasonably Rejected Proposal Due to Risk of Overworked Personnel; ITI Solutions, Inc., GAO B-418132
Third Place Offeror Not an Interested Party, Can’t Maintain Protest; Panum Telecom, LLC, GAO B-418202
Remembrance of Things Past: Evaluators Not Required to Consider Subcontractor’s Past Performance on a Contract Just Because Agency Had Staff that Remembered the Performance; Yulista Tactical Services LLC, GAO B-417317.3 et al.
There Must Be Some Misunderstanding: Protest Premised on Little More than Disagreement with Agency’s Evaluation Fizzles; Protest of Zolon Tech, Inc., FAA No. 19-ODRA-00854
Incumbent Proposes Exact Opposite of What Agency Asked For, Loses Contract, Loses Protest; Altair Equipment Company, Inc, GAO B-418303
Offeror’s Failure to Discuss Solicitation Requirements in the Proper Portion of Its Proposal Results in Deficiency; Management Systems International, Inc. and Blumont Engineering Solutions, Inc., GAO B-418080 et al.
Approach that Goes Beyond Solicitation Requirement Ends Up Convincing Agency that Offeror Does Not Understand the Requirement; XL Associates, Inc. d/b/a/ XLA, GAO B-417426.3
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