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Protester Complained It Didn’t Receive a SAM Notification for Solicitation. Why Didn’t This State a Valid Protest?
Protester Denied It Had an Impaired Objectivity OCI. But GAO Found the OCI Taint Was Indelible
How Did a Failure to Account for the Olympic Games Sink this Protester’s Proposal?
Should the Agency Have Investigated Prospective Small Business Offerors Before Setting Aside the Requirement?
COFC Rebukes OHA, Finds Agency Assigned Wrong NAICS Code to Procurement
Protester Said Its Exclusion Amounted to a Responsibility Determination that Should’ve Been Referred to SBA. Why Did GAO Disagree?
Agency Asserted Privilege, Refused to Disclose Portions of Record. How Did this Assertion Result in a Sustained Protest?
Protester Said It Should’ve Received a HIgher Past Performance Rating. Why Did GAO Dismiss the Argument?
Protester Alleged Cancellation of Solicitation Was Pretextual, But GAO Thought It Was Legit
Protester Said Its Past Performance Problems Were Magnified Due to the Size of Its Past Contracts. Why Didn’t GAO Find this Persuasive?
Item Wasn’t Approved for Use in U.S. Why Did It Still Qualify as a Commercial Product?
Agency Resurrected a Canceled Solicitation. Should the Agency Have Issued a New Solicitation Instead?
Protester Convinces GAO It’s Entitled to an Inflation Adjustment on Protest Costs
One Protester Had a Clearly Meritorious Argument. Could that Merit Transfer to Another Protester’s Argument?
Did the Agency Apply Unstated Criteria by Requiring Too Much Detail?
Does a Teaming Arrangement Create a Separate Legal Entity?
Protester Said Failure to Create a Consensus Evaluation Was Unreasonable. GAO Wasn’t Convinced.
Protester Claimed Agency Ignored Information in Its Proposal. GAO Said Agency Could Not Ignore Information That Wasn’t There.
Agency Copied Language from Awardee’s Quotation in Assessing Strengths. Why Didn’t this Bother the COFC?
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