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Agency Not Required to Consider Performance Risk of Low Cost Proposal When RFP Did Not Require a Unique Technical Approach; Logistics Management Institute, GAO B-417601, B-417601.3, B-417601.4
USAID Personal Services Contract Not Required to Include Locality Pay; William Schaeffer, GAO B-417654
No Disparate Treatment When Solicitation Applies Different Evaluation Standard to Different Types of Offers; Poplar Point RBBR, LLC, GAO B-417006.2, B-417006.3
Failure to Inform Agency of a Name Change Dooms SDVOSB’s Proposal; Sanford Federal, Inc., GAO B-417756
Misapprehension of Solicitation Requirement Does Not Make It Ambiguous; TCG, Inc., GAO B-417610, B-417610.2
Protester Not Entitled to Costs Even Though Agency Took Corrective Action After Agency Report; BAI, Inc.—Costs, GAO B-416681.7
Protester Had Notice of Protest Grounds Despite Agency’s Contradictory Communications; Alphapointe, GAO B-417834
Protester Not Entitled to Costs Incurred in Pursuing Costs Claim; Hope Village, Inc.—Costs, GAO B-414342.7
Awardee Can Intervene in Protester’s Suit to Override Automatic Stay; Winston-Salem Industries for The Blind, Inc. d/b/a IFB Solutions v. United States, COFC No. 19-1328C
Protester’s Reliance on Subcontractors Riskier than Awardee’s Reliance on Subsidiary; Austal USA, LLC, GAO B-417593
Agency May Rely on Lower-Weighted Factor to Discriminate Between Proposals; Defense Base Services, Inc., GAO B-416874.3, B-416874.4
Conversion of Sealed Bid to Negotiated Procurement was Reasonable; Perimeter Security Partners, LLC, GAO B-417591
Requirement to Propose Loaded Labor Rates Does Not Mean Offerors Must Provide Direct Compensation Rates; FEDSYNC BEI, LLC, GAO B-417492, B-417492.2
Supplementation of Record Unnecessary for Court to Decide Reasonableness of Restrictive Requirement; Chromalloy San Diego Corporation v. United States, COFC No. 19-974C
Protester Eliminated from Competition Lacks Standing to Challenge Change in Agency Requirements; TRAX International Corporation v. United States, COFC 19-685C
COFC Lacks Jurisdiction Over Protest of Award Made Under DoD’s Other Transactions Authority; Space Exploration Technologies Corp. v. United States, COFC No. 19-742C
Agency Not Required to Use Best Available Price Evaluation Methodology; WellPoint Military Care Corporation v. United States, COFC No. 19-676C
Failure to Propose Personnel with Required Qualifications Was Not a “Minor Detail” that Agency Could Overlook; ARServices, Limited, GAO B-417561, B-417561.2
Reconsideration of Protest Unwarranted Where Parties Ignored Solicitation Amendment that Could Have Negated Protest; General Services Administration; SBD Alliant, LLC—Reconsideration and Modification of Remedy, GAO B-417126.5, B-417126.6
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