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Domestic Certifications and SPRS Scores: Can the Agency Just Take an Offeror’s Word for It?
Best-Value Tradeoff: When Outstanding Isn’t Worth the Price
GAO Past Performance Protest Sustained: VA Improperly Excluded Older CPARS Records in Veterans Management Services, Inc.
Testing Times: Did DLA Unlawfully Block a Competitor from the Runflat Lubricant Market?
Federal Circuit Clarifies Application of Blue & Gold: Proposal Submission Deadline, Not Award, is the Operative Time for Filing
COFC Sustains Protest, Finds Agency’s Ratings Under Organization Factor Lacked a Rational Basis
Tales from the Crypt: COFC Rejects Challenge to Cemetery Expansion Contract
Small Business Math Doesn’t Add Up for Incumbent
Rehashing Old Arguments Won’t Win Reconsideration
Why Higher Ratings Don’t Always Win
No Plans, No Printing: GAO Denies Protest of Nonresponsibility Finding
Late Is Late—Even When a Government Firewall Captures Your Proposal
Timing Is Everything: GAO Dismisses Three Protests Filed Before the Solicitation Deadline but After GAO’s Daily Cutoff Time
Protester Can’t Overcome Missing Attestation Form
Grounded Before Takeoff: A Cautionary Tale on the “Late-Is-Late” Rule
COFC: Limitation on Subcontracting Certification Trips Up Contractor Where Solicitation Requires it to be Signed and Attached
GAO Denies Reconsideration Request, Holds Protester Can’t Assert New Arguments into Comments
GAO Finds Awardee’s Past Performance Justified a Price Premium
Border Barrier Protest Hits a Wall: IIRIRA Waiver Precludes GAO Jurisdiction
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