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Agency’s Amendment to Solicitation Revived an Allegedly Waived Formatting Requirement; Tope Technology, LLC, GAO B-416663.6
Protester Misunderstood Difference Between Corporate Experience and Past Performance; NCS/EML Joint Venture II, LLC, GAO B-417686
Lease Requirement Mandating a Single Building for Agency Offices Did Not Unduly Restrict Competition; BHB Limited Partnership & Indiana Associates Ltd. Partnership, GAO B-417760 et al.
GAO Finds Flaws in Agency’s Past Performance Evaluation and Cost Realism Analysis; Tyonek Global Services, LLC; Depot Aviation Solutions, LLC, GAO B-417188.2 et al.
Agency Did Not Give Offeror Enough Time to Submit a Revised Proposal; MCR Federal, LLC, GAO B-416654.2, B-416654.3
Protester Cannot Recover Costs For Agency’s Alleged Failure to Implement Corrective Action; OnPoint Consulting, Inc.—Costs, GAO B-417397.4
Being in Business for 25 Years and Following Best Practices Does Not, By Itself, Demonstrate an Ability to Recruit Staff; Computer World Services, GAO B-417634
“Piecemeal” and “High Level” Technical Proposal Did Not Merit a Strength When Agency Wanted a More “Holistic” Approach; Accenture Federal Services LLC; Cognosante MVH, LLC; SRA International, Inc., GAO B-417111.5 et al.
Agency’s Decision to Bundle Ten Contracts into One Procurement was Reasonable; InSap Services, Inc., GAO B-417596.2, B-417596.3
SDVOSB’s Advantage Under Solicitation’s Status Preference Undermined by Unreasonable Price; Land Shark Shredding, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 18-1568C
Agency Decision to Terminate Contract for Convenience Rather Then Defend Award is not Protestable; Lyon Shipyard, Inc., GAO B-417734.2
GAO Declines to Hear Protest Challenging Items on AbilityOne Commission’s Procurement List; Team Wendy, LLC, GAO B-417700.2
Protest Alleging a “Smorgasbord of Bloopers” Fails to Live Up to the Hype; AECOM Management Services, Inc – Advisory Opinion; GAO B-417501.12
Agency Did Not Mislead Protester Concerning the Issuance of a Solicitation; Async-Nu Microsystems, GAO B-417822
COFC Denies Protester’s Request for Stay Pending Appeal; NetCentrics Corporation v. United States, COFC No. 19-839C
Agency Not Obliged to Accept Protester’s Proposed Labor Rates While Ignoring Actual, Conflicting Payroll Data in the Proposal; Raytheon Company, GAO B-417731, B-417731.2
Counterintuitive Argument that Agency Wrongly Found Protester’s Costs Reasonable Fails to Persuade GAO; DynCorp International, LLC, GAO B-417506, B-417506.10
Use of Small Font for Parts of Proposal Did Not Violate Solicitation’s Formatting Requirements; Metropolitan Interpreters and Translators, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 19-748C
Offeror’s Failure to Provide Passwords for Encrypted Portions of its Proposal Renders Proposal Unacceptable; Opus Group, LLC, GAO B-413104.40
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