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GAO Lacks Jurisdiction to Hear Challenge to Actions of Central Nonprofit Agency in Procurement Conducted Under AbilityOne Program; Melwood Horticultural Training Center, Inc., GAO B-419424
Agency Reasonably Excluded Proposal for COVID-19 Test Kits; Comprehensive Health Services, LLC, GAO B-419183.2
Agency Copied Portion of Protester’s Evaluation Summary and Pasted It In Awardee’s Evaluation, But GAO Finds No Prejudicial Error; Deloitte Consulting LLP, GAO B-419336.2
Resolving Conflicting COFC Decisions, Federal Circuit Holds that COFC Has Jurisdiction Over Implied-In-Fact Contract Claims in Bid Protests; Safeguard Base Operations, LLC v. United States, B&O Joint Venture, LLC, Fed. Cir. 2019-2261
Court Refuses to Retain Jurisdiction Over Protest to Act as Bulwark Against Potential Errors in Corrective Action; Newimar, S.A. v. United States, COFC No. 20-1724C
Agency Decision to Take Corrective Was Not Pretextual But Reasonably Based on Its Interpretation of a Regulation; Digital Forensic Services, LLC, GAO B-319305.3
Conversion of Default Termination Into Termination for Convenience Moots Claimant’s Appeal; Mubashir Ali v. Agency for Global Media, CBCA 6914
Federal Circuit Rules that Navy Violated Implied-In-Fact Software License and Infringed Developer’s Copyright; Bitmanagement Software GMBH v. United States, Fed. Circ. 2020-1139
GAO Lacks Jurisdiction Over Protests Involving the White House’s Office of Administration; Argus Secure Technology, LLC, GAO B-419422, B-419422.2
SBA Failed to Follow Its Own Procedures In Terminating Cooperative Agreement; In the Matter of Edge Connection, SBA No. WBC-103
Federal Circuit Holds that Final Decision on a Government Claim Need Not State a Sum Certain; Creative Management Services, LLC, DBA MC-2 v. United States, Fed. Cir. 2020-1449
It’s In There Somewhere: ASBCA Finds that Contractor Made Demand for a Sum Certain from the Totality of the Parties’ Communications; Appeal of Globe Trailer Manufacturing, Inc., ASBCA No. 62594
Contractor Not Liable for Prefabrication Costs of Government Furnished Property; Appeal of General Dynamics – National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, ASBCA No. 61854
Agency Not Required to Determine Whether Offered Property Complied with Local Zoning Ordinances; Huffman Building P, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 20-1289C
Alleged Unstated Criteria Were Reasonably Encompassed by Solicitation; SOC LLC, GAO B-418487.2, B-418487.3
GAO Rejects Agency’s Post-Protest Explanations, Finds Agency Did Not Document Evaluation, Sustains Protest; Public Properties, LLC, GAO B-419414, B-419414.2
Agency Argued ASBCA Lacked Jurisdiction Because the Agency Hadn’t Issued Final Decision, But Agency’s Delay in Issuing Decision was a Breach that Conferred Jurisdiction; Appeals of Transdev Services, Inc., ASBCA Nos. 62654, 62655
Agency Not Required to “Monetize” Offeror’s Technical Approach; Coventry Healthcare Workers’ Compensation, Inc., GAO B-417237.5
Agency Neglected to Analyze Proposals for Unbalanced Pricing; IAP World Services, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 20-1116C
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