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Not Much GAO Can Do About a Third-Party’s OCI
COFC Finds Awardee Represented Its Past Performance as “a Beautiful Romantic Comedy” When It Was Actually a “Horror Film.”
Can an Agency Consider the Experience of Individual Employees When Assessing Corporate Experience?
Protester Learns the Hard Way Not to Expect an Agency to Infer Information Not Explicitly Stated in the Proposal
Protester Said Corrective Action Failed to Address Flaws in Procurement. GAO Didn’t See It that Way.
Agency Argued GAO Cited Inapposite Law. GAO Said Citation Was Cool Because It Was Prefaced by “cf.” Introductory Signal.
So the Agency Took Corrective Action. That Doesn’t Mean Your Protest Arguments Were Slam Dunks.
Is the Agency Required to Quantify the Risks and Benefits of Paying a Price Premium?
Protester Unable to Overcome Enormous Price Premium
Protester “Inadvertently Miscounted the Days” When Calculating Deadline for Comments on Agency Report. GAO Was Unmoved.
GAO Can Only Hear Protests of Task Orders that Exceed $25 million. But How Does GAO Determine Task Order Value?
Jilted Offeror Asserted It Could Satisfy Agency’s Needs. GAO Wasn’t Convinced.
Awardee’s Price Was Double the Protester’s. Why Wasn’t the Awardee’s Price Unreasonably High?
Don’t Expect an Agency to Read the Between the Lines of Key Personnel Resumes
Awardee Didn’t Have Experience on Federal Contracts, But that Didn’t Mean It Lacked Relevant Experience
Awardee’s Former Executive Was the SSA’s Boss. Why Didn’t GAO Think this Created a Conflict?
Can an Agency take Corrective Action in a COFC Protest Without Seeking a Voluntary Remand from the Court?
Post-Award Arguments Were Really Untimely Challenges to the Solicitation
Protester Neglected to Submit Experience Volume. Was the Protester’s Quotation Noncompliant, or Should the Agency Have Assessed a Neutral Experience Rating?
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