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Non-Profit Awarded Contract Funded With Federal Money. Did this Make the Award a Federal Procurement?
Protester Said Corrective Acton Was Transparent Attempt to Award Contract to Rival. Why Didn’t the Court Agree?
Agency Disclosed Incumbent’s Labor Categories to Offerors. Why Wasn’t this a PIA Violation?
Did the Agency Assess a Strength Based on Unstated Criteria or Did It Just Credit an Innovative Approach?
RFP Identified Key “Program Solutions Architect” Category. Awardee’s Proposed Category Didn’t Include the Word “Architect.” Why Wasn’t GAO Bothered?
Was the Awardee’s Ability to Recruit Incumbent Staff Really Equal to the Incumbent’s Ability to Leverage that Staff?
Did the Protester Submit a Cadillac Proposal or a Mere Honda Civic?
Agency Claimed Its Concerns with Awardee’s Price Had Been Resolved in “Verbal Meetings”. Why Didn’t that Explanation Fly with GAO?
Protester Said Agency Elevated Form Over Substance. Why Did GAO Find that, in this Case, Form Trumped Substance?
Got a Problem with the Agency’s Implementation of Wage Determinations? Don’t Come Crying to GAO
Protester Argued Its Price Was Closest to Government Estimate, So It Must’ve Properly Interpreted Solicitation. Why Did the Court Think this Was a Non-Sequitur?
Can a Protester Recover Lost Opportunities as Part of Bid Preparation Costs?
Protester Consulted with Former Agency Official But Claimed It Didn’t Get an Unfair Advantage. GAO Disagreed. Why Was Disqualification of the Protester Warranted?
Is “Price Credibility” the Same Thing as Price Realism?
JV Partners Worked on Past Contracts as Prime and Sub, not as a JV. Why Was the Agency Allowed to Attribute these Past Contracts to their JV?
Who Qualifies as a Professional? GAO’s Got Some Thoughts
If Alleged Disparate Treatment Implicates Highly Technical Esoterica, GAO Will Probably Defer to the Agency
“You Sit on a Throne of Conjecture!” How Did the Agency’s Assumptions Deep Six this Award?
Protester Never Got a Chance to Respond to “Errantly-Delivered” CPARS Report. Should the Agency Have Relied on that Report?
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