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Agency Reasonably Found Awardee’s Low Price Realistic; Epic Systems, Inc., GAO B-418104, B-418104.2
“To quoque!”: Protester Can’t Claim that Awardee Failed to Follow RFP Instruction When Protester Failed to Follow that Same Instruction; Spatial Front, Inc., B-417985, B-417985.2
Agency’s Cancellation of Solicitation Was Not a Pretext to Avoid Resolution of Protest; Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC, GAO B-417475.5, B-417475.6
When a Solicitation Requires Offerors to Make Recommendations, Simply Stating that Your Recommendations Will Utilize Your Knowledge, Initiative, and Experience Will Not Cut It; 22nd Century Technologies, Inc., GAO B-418029 et al.
GAO – Harmonia Holdings Group
Agency Reasonably Rejected Proposal That Failed to Delineate Experience of Key Individual; Deloitte Consulting, LLP, GAO B-416882.4
Protester Cannot Fault Agency for Failing to Find a Flaw in Its Price Proposal: Wellspring Worldwide, Inc., GAO B-417282.2 et al.
GAO Sustains Protest, Refuses to Accept a Teaming Agreement as Substitute for a Letter of Commitment from Key Personnel; IT Objects, LLC, GAO B-418012, B-418012.2
You Don’t Know What I Need: Protest Alleging that Solicitation Does Not Reflect Agency Requirements Leaves GAO Unfulfilled; Seventh Dimension, LLC, GAO B-417630.2, B-417630.3
“There Ain’t No Good Guy, There Ain’t No Bad Guy. There’s Only You and Me and We Just Disagree”: Disagreement With Agency About Weight of Evaluation Concerns and Flaws in Proposal Cannot Sustain Protest; Undercover Training, LLC, GAO B-418170
Cherry-Picked, Decontextualized Portions of Awardee’s Proposal Were Not Material Exceptions to the Solicitation; Verizon Business Network Services, Inc., GAO B-418073 et al.
Agency Cannot Establish a Blanket Purchase Agreement Under Multiple Federal Supply Schedule Contracts; NCS Technologies, Inc., GAO B-417956, B-417956.2
Flawed Best Value Analysis—Which Created “False Impression of Equivalence” Among Proposals—Turned Acquisition Into Lowest-Priced Technically-Acceptable Procurement; System Studies & Simulation, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 19-1518C
Even If Alternative Evaluation Methodologies Would Have Improved Agency’s Price Analysis, the Method the Agency Used was Not Unreasonable; NTT DATA Services Federal Government, Inc., GAO B-417235.2, B-417235.3
Generalia Specialibus Non Derogant: GAO Confirms that in Government Contracts, the General Does not Detract from the Specific; Strategic Management Solutions, LLC, GAO B-416598.3, B-416598.4
“We Hire Only the Best People, Even Those We’ve Never Met”: Awardee Proposes Personnel It Never Spoke To, Loses Contract; T3I Solutions, LLC, GAO B-418034, B-418034.2
Agency Rightly Rejected Offer that Proposed Salary Rates for the Wrong Geographic Region; Consolidated Safety Services, Inc., GAO -418221
Agency Unimpressed with Protester’s Over-Reliance on Notes During an Oral Presentation; G4S Secure Solutions (USA), Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 19-1329C
Protester Unable to Argue Its Way out of Less Than Stellar Past Performance; GSI Construction Corporation, GAO B-418084
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