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Don’t Forget to Remove Access Restrictions from Your Proposal!
Protester Claimed Awardee Wasn’t Authorized to Work in Place of Performance. Why Did GAO Deny?
When Can an Agency Use a “Notional Estimate” to Evaluate Proposals?
Solicitation Didn’t Require Labor Categoriy Mapping. Why Did the Agency Err in Not Considering Whether the Awardee’s Categories Encompassed the Required Services?
Protester Complained Licensing Requirements Were Unduly Restrictive. GAO Said Deal with It.
GAO Parses Difference Between a Contract and a Cash Prize
Protest Foiled by Issue Preclusion
Protester Argued Agency Didn’t Provide Enough Time to Prepare Proposals. GAO Begged to Differ.
Lost in LCAT Limbo: Deficient Labor Category Mapping Consigns Proposal to the Reject Pile
Requirement Was “Comparatively Stringent” But Not Unduly Restrictive
Agency’s Inept Evaluation Inspires Court’s Lofty Aphorism: “Unreasonable Government Actions Fester in Opaqueness”
COFC Disqualified an Offeror for an Unmitigable Conflict. Why Did the Federal Circuit Reverse?
Awardee Was Working on a Similar Contract for the Same Agency. Why Didn’t the Agency Have to Consider that Contract When Assessing Past Performance?
COFC Finds GAO Botched Outcome Prediction, Reinstates Award to Initial Awardee
Protester Thought Agency May Want Something Other than What the Solicitation Specified. The Protester Was Wrong.
The Solicitation May Impose Risk on the Eventual Contractor, But that Doesn’t Mean Offerors Can’t Intelligently Compete
The Solicitation Didn’t Require a Price Realism Evaluation, But That Didn’t Stop the Protester from Challenging the Awardee’s Low Price
Protester Alleged Agency Ignored Information in Its Proposal. But GAO Said Agency Couldn’t Ignore What Wasn’t There.
Protester Satisfied Prerequisites for an “Outstanding” Rating But Received a “Good.” GAO Didn’t See a Problem.
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