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Should Protester’s Highly-Rated Experience Have Been the Standard Against Which Other Offerors Were Assessed?
Protester Presented Its Price in Two Currencies—One Was Supposed to Be Illustrative. Did the Agency Use the Wrong Currency in Assessing Price?
Deep Thoughts: Does the Word “Attach” Simply Mean to Fasten or Does It Encompass Incorporation by Reference?
Agency Tried to Explain Yawning Gulf Between Initial Evaluation and Reevaluation. Why Did Agency Lack a Defensible Legal Position?
Did the Marriage of a Proposed Key Person and the COR Create an Irredeemable Conflict of Interest?
Was the Agency Required to Determine If a Product Qualified as COTS Before Issuing the Solicitation?
Agency Refused to Implement a GAO Recommendation. Did that Refusal Moot a COFC “Appeal” of the GAO Decision?
Agency Took Corrective Action in Response to an Agency Protest. Could the Protester Still File a GAO Protest?
Agency Changed Solicitation’s Evaluation Criteria But then Reverted Back to Original Criteria. Why Was a Protest Challenging the Reversion Untimely?
Agency Took Corrective Action After Disclosing Awardee’s Price. Should the Corrective Action Have Prohibited Price Revisions?
Awardee’s Staffing Levels Were Below the Government’s Estimate. Why Didn’t this Tank the Awardee’s Proposal?
Solicitation Required Contractor to Incentivize Trainees with Rewards. Did the Awardee’s Reward Plan Recognize Achievement or Just Hand Out Participation Trophies?
Did a Limitation on Proposal Revisions Unduly Favor One Offeror?
Awardee Wasn’t Registered in SAM When it Submitted Bid. Why Did GAO Let It Slide?
Agency Demonstrates Three Ways to Flub a Cost Realism Evaluation
Post-Corrective Action Evaluation Differed Significantly from Initial Evaluation. Was the Agency’s Explanation Credible?
GAO Dismissed a Protest Argument But Did Subsequent Events Make It Meritorious?
Is Loss of an Incumbent Contract an Irreparable Injury?
Protester Suggested an Alternative Delivery Deadline. Did the Protester Take Exception to the Deadline Stated in the Solicitation?
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