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Agency’s Discussions Did Not Coerce Protester Into Raising Its Price; Quality Control International, LLC, GAO B-417984
CBCA Rebuffs Government’s Attempt to Dismiss Contractor’s Claim for Damaged Equipment; Griz One Firefighting, LLC v. Department of Agriculture.
GAO Issues Surprising Decision Downplaying Impact of Alleged OCI
SCA Covered or Not? Special Challenges with IDIQ Contracts
Agency Bungles Proposal Evaluations; GAO Sustains Protest and Awards Costs
Army to Release New Wish List for Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle
Amazon Wins Early Order Blocking $10B Cloud Contract Awarded to Microsoft
How an Agency Loses a Protest and Alienates Offerors: (1) Invent a Solicitation Requirement, (2) Find Offerors Met Requirement Even Though Proposals Didn’t Contemplate It, (3) Adjust Prices to Reflect Cost of Non-Existent Requirement; PMSI, LLC d/b/a Optum Workers’ Compensation Services of Florida, GAO B-417237 et al.
Agency Erred By Re-Procuring After Default Instead of Conducting a New Competition; Steel Point Solutions, LLC, GAO B-418224, B-418224.2
Contractor Cannot Recover Costs Under EAJA For Time That President and Project Manager Spent on Claim and Appeal; Appeal of GSI & Whitesell-Green, JV, ASBCA No. 62216
SBA Area Office Double Counted Revenue in Denial of 8(a) Application, Says OHA
Where Is It From? Domestic Preference Law in Flux After Acetris Federal Circuit Decision
Top 5 Political Law Issues for Government Contractors in This Election Year
Federal Judge Orders Microsoft to Stop Work on Pentagon JEDI Cloud-Computing Project
Esper: No White House pressure on JEDI
Contracting Officer’s Stern—“Bordering on Verbally Abusive”—Emails Come Back to Haunt Agency in Attorney Fees Proceeding; Vet4U, LLC v. Department of Veterans Affairs, CBCA 6612-C(5387)
Protester Cannot Complain that Awardee’s Pricing Structure Was Improper When Protester Used the Same Structure; Raytheon Company, GAO B-417524.2, B-417524.3
Agency Decision to Not Set Aside Procurement for Veteran-Owned Businesses Was Unreasonable; Academy Medical, LLC, GAO B-418223, B-418223.2
Corrective Action Allowing Unrestricted Proposal Revisions Unobjectionable Even Though Awardee’s Price and Technical Rating Had Been Disclosed to Other Offerors; DynCorp International LLC, GAO B-417704.5
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