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Alleged Ambiguity in Solicitation Should Have Been Raised before Proposal Deadline; Sterling Medical Associates, Inc, GAO B-419794
Challenge to Best Value Determination Withers Under GAO Scrutiny; Tuba Group, GAO B-419733
OHA: Ya’ Gotta File a Size Protest before Filings a Size Appeal; Size Appeal of Caldaia Controls, LLC, RE: Venergy Group, LLC, SBA No. SIZ-6104
Agency Not Required to Explain Why It Found Aspects of Proposal Merely Adequate; Logistics Health, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 21-759
Just Because the Agency Selected the Lowest-Priced Proposal Doesn’t Mean It Conducted an LPTA Procurement; ICON Government and Public Health Solutions, Inc., GAO B-419751
Protest Challenged Awardee’s SDVOSB Status, But the Contract Was Not Set Aside for SDVOSBs; CVE Protest of Esterhill Boat Services Corporation Re: Dublin EDT JV, LLC, SBA No. CVE-194-p
Protester Lacked Standing to Protest Because Its Proposal Contradicted the Solicitation; Asset Protection & Security Services, L.P. v. United States, Fed. Cir. 2021-1008
Although Appeal Calculated Damages Differently than Underlying Claim, It Did Not Present a “New Claim”; Appeal of Anthony and Gordon Construction Co., ASBCA No. 61916
Agency Reasonably Credited Awardee for Its Access to the “Twitter Firehose”; Babel Street, Inc., GAO B-418730.5, B-418730.6
OHA Finds Putative SDVOSB Unusually Reliant on Subcontractor; Appeal of Land Shark Shredding, LLC Re: Griffin Resources, LLC, SBA No CVE-195-P
Evidence Talks, Wishy-Washy Insinuation Walks: Protester Alleges PIA Violation But Prevaricates When Pressed for Evidence; Alpine Companies, Inc., GAO B-419831 et al.
Protester Can’t Convince GAO that Weakness Assessed to Awardee Should’ve Been a Deficiency; Agile-Bot II, LLC, GAO B-419350.3, B-49350
ASBCA Reaffirms that Unilateral Contract Definitization Is Not a Government Claim; Appeals of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, ASBCA Nos. 62505, 62506
Proposal that Failed to Adequately Address “the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How” of the Offeror’s Approach Deserved a Deficiency; IAP Worldwide Services, Inc., GAO B-419647, B-419647.3
Protester May Have Possessed Experience Comparable to Other Offerors, But the Protester Failed to Affirmatively Demonstrate that Experience; Pioneer Credit Recovery, Inc, GAO B-419599, B-419599.2
Contractor Can’t Convince Board to Dismiss Government Complaint Seeking Penalty for Claiming Expressly Unallowable Costs; Appeal of Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, ASBCA No. 62596
Court Questions Agency’s Reasoning But Nonetheless Finds that Decision to Limit Scope of Corrective Action Was Not Arbitrary; PAE Applied Technologies, LLC v. United States & Joint Integrated Range Solutions, LLC. v. United States, COFC Nos. 20-1925C, 20-1954C
Agency Not Required to Conduct Discussions for Concerns Introduced in Proposal Revisions; Qwest Government Services, Inc. d/b/a CenturyLink QGS, GAO B-419045.4 et al.
Agency Didn’t Act in Bad Faith When, After Receiving Bids, It Conducted Additional Market Research and Reopened Procurement; DCR Development, LLC, GAO B-419608, B-419608.2
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