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Proposal Undone By Less Than Stellar Oral Presentation; XL Associates, Inc., GAO B-420078, B-420078.2
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
OHA Appeal Dismissed for Failing to Allege an Error; CVE Appeal of Watanabe Enterprises, LLC, SBA No. CVE-218-A
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
Contractor Couldn’t Prove When It Submitted Incurred Cost Proposals, So It Couldn’t Assert SOL as Defense to Government Claim for Disallowed Costs; Appeal of Strategic Technology Institute, Inc., ASBCA No. 61911
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.
Software License May Have Been Binding on the Government, But the Contract Wasn’t Covered by the Contract Disputes Act; Avue Technologies Corporation v. Department of Health and Human Services and General Services Administration, CBCA 6360, 6627
Applicant to 8(a) Program Unable to Prove Its Owner Is Socially Disadvantaged; In the Matter of M Patterson Services, LLC, SBA No. BDPE-597
CBCA Declines to Find that Agency’s Method for Calculating Damages Is Correct as a Matter of Law; RocJoi Medical Imaging, LLC v. Department of Veterans Affairs, CBCA 6885, 7051
“Baby Come Back, You Can Blame It All on Me, I Was Wrong, and I Just Can’t Live Without You”: GSA Fails to Prove that It Didn’t Abandon a Lease: Meld, LLC v. General Services Administration, CBCA 6357, 6721
Contractor Rides Into CBCA on “a Horse With No Name,” Unable to Enforce an Illusory Contract; OWL, Inc. v. Department of Veterans Affairs, CBCA 7183
Protester Claimed Small Business’s Relationship “Smelled of Affiliation,” But OHA Smells Only the Jasmine-Soaked Summer Breeze; Size Appeal of Crew Training International, Inc., Re: Saguaro Business Solutions, LLC, SBA No. SIZ-6128
“Sweet Dreams and Flying Machines In Pieces on the Ground”: CBCA Finds Contractor Misread Contract, Is Not Entitled to Windfall Restocking Fee; Team Systems International, LLC v. Department of Homeland Security, CBCA 7145
“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
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