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Don’t Overlook the Seemingly Perfunctory in Your Proposal: CAGE Codes
Navy Makes More Changes in Biggest Portion of NGEN Recompetition
Agency Ignores Deficiencies in Awardee’s Proposal Even After Taking Corrective Action, COFC No. 17-1638 C, 2M Research Services, LLC v. United States
Agency Reasonably Found Awardee Responsible and Financially Stable After Its Restructuring and Refinancing, COFC No. 18-557 C, DynCorp International LLC v. United States
Failure to Challenge Multiple Weaknesses and Deficiencies Renders Protest Futile; GAO B-416420, Delta Risk LLC
ASBCA Offers Mixed Bag on “Expressly Unallowable” and “Directly Associated” Costs
Palantir: Federal Circuit Confirms Agencies’ Obligations to Prioritize Commercial Solutions
Corrective Action Actually Amended Solicitation Terms; GAO B-415171.3, CSRA LLC—Costs
Corrective Action Timely Even Though Protester Challenged Solicitation Terms Prior to Filing Protest; GAO B-416208.2, Knowlogy Corporation—Costs
GAO Recommends Costs for All Grounds Challenging Past Performance Evaluation, Not Only Those Raised in Supplemental Protest; GAO B-415965.5, Deque Systems Inc.—Costs
Corrective Action Delayed but Protest Grounds Not Clearly Meritorious; GAO B-415673.3, Management & Training Corporation—Costs
Where Non-Price Ratings Identical, Agency Wasn’t Required to Choose Lower-Priced Offeror
NLRB Proposes Rule to Limit Joint Employer Test: Small Businesses Beware
State and Federal Agencies Look to Contractors in the Wake of Hurricane Florence
Court: Army Ignored Law’s Preference for Commercial Items in Major Intel Procurement
Plaintiff Cannot Claim Differing Site Conditions When Neither Agency nor Contract Made Assertions About Those Conditions; COFC No. 14-1202, RMA Engineering S.A.R.L., d/b/a RMV Architects v. United States
Protester Properly Excluded from Agency Clarifications After Apparent Awardee Identified; COFC No. 18-298 C, Eisenhower Real Estate Holdings Inc. v. United States and CSHV Lincoln Place LLC
Plan to Hire Six Highly-Skilled Technical Workers from Incumbent Does Not Demonstrate Unusual Reliance; SBA No. SIZ-5949, Size Appeal of Elevator Service Inc.
Unchallenged Solicitation Ambiguity Not Unstated Evaluation Criteria; GAO B-413104.19, People, Technology and Processes LLC
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