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Agency Reasonably Rejected SBIR Proposal that Wasn’t Directed to Any Specific “Area of Interest”; Front End Analytics, LLC, GAO B-420024.2 B-420024.3
Agency Decision to Take Corrective Action in Response to Second Protest Doesn’t Make Initial Protest “Clearly Meritorious”; WILL Technology, Inc.–Costs, GAO B-419815.6
Court Affirms OHA Decision Finding Concern Was Ineligible for Award as an SDVOSB; Superior Optical Labs, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 21-cv-01580
Proposed Rule – Small Business Amendments
Federal Circuit Reverses COFC, Reaffirms that Protester Has Standing If They Would Have Opportunity to Participate in New Procurement; VAS Realty, LLC v. United States, Fed. Cir. 2021-1962
Agency Appropriately Penalized Offeror for Typos in Proposal; Zermount, Inc, GAO B-420174, B-420174.2
Preference for Contractor with Nuclear Safety Experience Was Not Unduly Restrictive; Government and Military Certification Systems, Inc., GAO B-4210241.2
VA Tries to Argue Lease Amendment Lacked Consideration, But CBCA Won’t Let Agency Wriggle Out of Commitment; 1425-1429 Snyder Realty, LLC v. Department of Veterans Affairs, CBCA 6433
Protester Already Had an Outstanding Rating, So Agency’s Failure to Assign Additional Strengths Wasn’t Prejudicial; Chevo Consulting, LLC, GAO B-20242, B-420242.2
Protester Didn’t Challenge Eligibility of Intervening Offeror And Thus Was Not an Interested Party to Raise Additional Protest Grounds; Kearney & Company, PC, GAO B-420331, B-420331.2
Agency Improperly Based Award Decision on Quotation Composed of Submission from Two Different Vendors; Softrams, LLC; Chags Health Information Technology, LLC, GAO B-419927.4 et al.
Contractor Doesn’t Have a Property Interest in “Being Allowed to Compete Fairly”; Sunrez Corporation v. United States, COFC No. 21-568
No Error in Agency’s Consideration of Allegedly Irrelevant CPARS; Brown Point Facility Management Solutions, LLC, GAO B-420299
Federal Circuit Reverses ASBCA, Holds Government Breached by Paying Funds to Account Not Specified in Contract; Aspen Consulting, LLC v. Secretary of the Navy, Fed. Cir. 2021-1381
SBA Not Required to Evaluate a Revised Proposals As Part of Non-Responsibility Determination; All Phase Solutions, LLC, GAO B-420376
Solicitation Required Agency to Consider Risk But Not to Assign an Adjectival Rating for Risk; Garco-WEMCO, JV, GAO B-420317
CBCA Rejects Government’s Assertion of Deliberative Process Privilege; Active Construction, Inc. v. Department of Transportation; CBCA 6597
Awardee Disqualified for Misrepresenting Experience of Key Personnel; Insight Technology Solutions, Inc., GAO B-420133.2 et al.
Agency Didn’t Err in Rejecting Non-Compliant Proposal; QED Systems, LLC, GAO B-419441.4
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