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Proposal’s 102% Escalation Rate Between the Base Year and First Option Year Results in Finding of Unbalanced Pricing; Doore Tour Company, Ltd., GAO B-420326
Agency Not Required to Discern Timeframes from Offeror’s Proposal; J.E. McAmis, Inc., GAO B-420310
COFC Renounces GAO Rule, Declines to Find Offeror Has Duty to Notify Agency of Changes in Personnel; Golden IT, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 21-1966C
Protester Couldn’t Convince FAA that Its Approach Was Not High Risk; Protest of Rockwell Collins, Inc., FAA 21-ODRA-00886
Protester Reasonably Received a Weakness for Merely Acknowledging RFP Requirement Instead of Showing How It Would Meet those Requirements; Emagine IT, Inc., GAO B-420202, B-420202.2
Protester Persuades COFC that Ambiguity in Solicitation Was Latent, Not Patent, Convinces Court to Effectively “Reverse” Earlier GAO Decision; CGS-SPP Security Joint Venture v. United States, COFC No. 21-2049C
Protester Didn’t Heed Concerns Raised During Discussions, Can’t Complain About Risk Assessed to Its Proposal; Dev Technology Group, Inc., GAO B-4202030, B-420230.2
Protester’s Unstated Criteria and Unequal Treatment Allegations Fail to Persuade; Favor TechConsulting, LLC, GAO B-420279 et al.
“Something Is Rotten in the State of Denmark”: Court Finds Award Is Tainted by Possible PIA Violation, Remands to Agency for an Investigation; Insight Public Sector, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 21-cv-1755
Communications with Agency Constituted an Agency Protest, Which Set the 10-Day Clock Running for a GAO Protest; Science and Technology Corporation, GAO, B-420216
GAO Interrogates the Nebulous Gray Area Between an Evaluation and a Non-Responsibility Determination; A. Prentice Ray & Associates, LLC, GAO B-419024.5, B-419024.6
Protester Should’ve Been Keeping an Eye on SAM.gov, Not Social Media; Kolb Grading, LLC, GAO B-420310.2
Protester Attempts to “Re-Litigate” Arguments From Prior, Successful Protest But Can’t Recapture the Magic; PAE National Security Solutions, LLC, GAO B-419207.6
GAO Reaffirms that Price Realism Evaluation Is Not a Non-Responsibility Determination; Monbo Group International, GAO B-420269, B-420269.2
Offeror Doesn’t Need to Neutralize an OCI Before the Agency Can Waive It; Steel Point Solutions, LLC, GAO B-419709.3
“Sometimes When We Touch, the Honesty’s Too Much”: Awardee’s Over-Elucidation of it Approach Tips Clarification into Unequal Discussions, But Protester Wasn’t Prejudiced; ENGlobal Government Services, Inc., GAO B-419612.3
Past Performance References Lacked the Specific Work Called for in the Solicitation, Agency Appropriately Found Them Only Somewhat Relevant; Nexsys Electronics Inc. d/b/a Medweb GAO B-419616.4
Agency Didn’t Sufficiently Consider Impact of Corporate Transaction; Vertex Aerospace, LLC, GAO B-410073, B-420073.2
Protester Demanded a More Stringent Evaluation of the Awardee than the Solicitation Required; CBF Partners JV, LLC, GAO B-419846.2 et al.
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