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Protester Alleged Disparate Treatment. GAO Didn’t See It.
Protester’s Video Submission Got Strong Initial Ratings But a More Tepid Response After a Rewatch. Why Didn’t the Agency Have to Reconcile the Discrepancy?
Protester Omitted One Item from a Crosswalk Attachment. How Did this Omission Tank the Entire Proposal?
Agency Finds Variety of Ways to Botch Buy American Waiver
Post-Award Communications with the Agency Didn’t Toll the Protest Deadline
Protester Said Required Experience Could Be Inferred from Its Proposal. Why Did GAO Refuse to Make that Inference?
Reevaluation Differed Significantly from Initial Evaluation. Why Didn’t the Agency Have to Reconcile the Evaluations?
Corrective Action Didn’t Address All Arguments Raised in Protest. Why Did GAO Let It Slide?
Protester Said Agency Should’ve Assessed Realism Using Incumbent Compensation Rates. Why Were Incumbent Rates Not A Valid Comparison?
Your Interpretation of the Solicitation May Differ from the Agency’s, But that Doesn’t Make the Solicitation Ambiguous
When It Comes to Price Realism, a Facile Evaluation Is Sufficient
How Did Careless Phrasing Undermine the Protester’s Proposal?
The Agency Apparently Damaged the Protester’s Video Submission. Why Couldn’t the Protester Submit a Replacement Video?
Was the Solicitation Unduly Restrictive or Did the Protester Just Misread It?
An Emailed Protest Filing Is OK If GAO Has Technical Issues with EPDS, But It Won’t Fly If You’re the One With Technical Issues
It’s Hard to Get a Preliminary Injunction When You File the Protest Six Months into Performance
Your Protest May Have Prompted Corrective Action, But that Doesn’t Mean the Reevaluation Will Be Favorable
Next Time You Sign a Bid, Skip the Blue Pen and Go With a Black Sharpie
Protester’s Apparent Conflict Exuded a “Certain Aroma that Is Hard to Purify”
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