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If You Want the Agency to Consider Key Person’s Experience, Highlight It. Don’t Expect an Agency to Infer Experience from a Resume.
GAO Finds Agency Phoned It in While Evaluating Awardee’s Labor Categories
Solicitation Said Award Would Go to the Quote that Represented the “Best Value.” Did This Mean the Agency Had to Conduct a Tradeoff?
Agencies Must Document a Proposal’s Strengths, Weaknesses, and Deficiencies. What’s an Agency Supposed to Do When a Proposal Is Merely Adequate?
Should the Agency Have Watched the Protester’s Instructional Videos?
Protester Had Some Bad Feelings About the Evaluation, But Suspicions Are Not Enough to Sustain a Protest
Protester Complained It Was Assessed a Weakness for a Minor Clerical Error. Why Did GAO Think the Error Was Neither Minor nor Clerical?
A Mentor-Protege JV Must Itemize the Equipment Furnished by Each Partner. But What’s a JV Supposed to Do When It’s Providing IT Services?
Requesting Reconsideration of a Protest Decision? Don’t Assert a New Argument You Could’ve Asserted in the Underlying Protest.
Protester Wanted More Explicit Discussions. GAO Said That’d Be Spoon-Feeding.
Protester Thought State Licensing Requirements Were Unduly Restrictive. GAO Said Protester Had to Deal with It.
Even the Protester Conceded Its Proposal Could’ve Been Clearer
Protester Runs the Table on Its Protest Arguments, Exposes Spurious Evaluation
Awardee Allegedly Dabbled in Bid Rigging and May Have Accessed Info on Protester’s Bidding Strategies. Why Didn’t this Invalidate the Award?
Proposal Contained an Absurd, $2.5 Billion Pricing Error. Should the Agency Have Sought Clarification?
Protester Filed a GAO Protest Ten Days After Its Agency Protest Was Denied. Why Was the GAO Protest Untimely?
Agency’s Post Hoc Justifications Land with a Deadening Thud
Agency Can’t Cancel a Solicitation Due to Bad Vibes
Oops: Company that Received SDVOSB Set-Aside Wasn’t Actually an SDVOSB
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