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Although GAO Requested a Hearing, It Didn’t Mean Protester Was Clearly Meritorious; Hanford Tank Closure Company, LLC – Costs, GAO B-418778.9
Be Gone! Protester Unable to Expunge Weaknesses Assessed to Its Proposal; Ripple Effect Communications, Inc., GAO B-418660.2
Introductory Letter in Awardee’s Proposal Did Not Count Against Page Limitations; Rocky Mountain Mobile Medical, GAO B-418788 et al.
Contractor Not Required to Provide Cost Information for Its Parent Organization; Mission Support Alliance, LLC v. Department of Energy, CBCA 6476, 6811
Agency’s Duty to Record Oral Presentation Is Less Rigorous in a Task Order Procurement; Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., GAO B-419210, B-419210.2
Protest Objecting to Acceptance of Requirement into 8(a) Program Should Have Been Filed When Requirement Was Accepted into the Program; Quanterion Solutions, Inc., GAO B-419438
Federal Circuit Holds that Blanket Purchase Agreement Is Not a Binding Contract; McLeod Group, LLC v. United States, Fed. Cir. 2020-1389
End of the Salad Days: Government Not Responsible for Excess Costs Contractors Incurred Shipping Produce; Appeals of MPG West, LLC, ASBCA Nos. 61100, 61560, 61570
Agency Reasonably Cancelled Procurement When It Didn’t Know the Origin of the Solicitation’s Requirements; Draeger, Inc., GAO B-418089.2, B-418089.3
Contract Provision Stating that Agency “Shall Consider” Equitable Adjustment Does Not Merely Obligate Agency to “Think Over” or Contemplate Adjustment; BGT Holdings, LLC v. United States, Fed. Cir. No. 2020-1084
ASBCA Won’t Consider Appeal Filed One Day Late; Appeal of Haakenson Electric Company, ASBCA No. 62606
Solicitation Amendments Do Not Constitute Discussions; Strategic Resources, Inc., GAO B-419151
Exceeding Proposal Page Limit Not a Problem if the Agency Doesn’t Consider the Extra Pages; SMS Data Products Group, Inc., GAO B-418925.2 et al.
Agency Should Have Overlooked Protester’s Lack of Active SAM Registration as Immaterial Defect; Master Pavement Line Corporation, GAO B-419111
GAO Affirms that Corrective Action Need Not Resolve All Protest Issues—It Need Only Render the Protest Academic; Raytheon Company, GAO B-419393.5, B-419393.6
Protester’s Proposed Marmoset Cages Not Up to Snuff; Britz & Company, GAO B-419163
GAO Issues Bid Protest Annual Report for 2020
Agency’s Duty to Consider “Close-at-Hand” Past Performance Information Cannot Remedy Offeror’s Failure to Include Performance Information in Proposal; INTELiTEAMS, Inc., GAO B-418123.4
Agency Reasonably Determined that Protester’s One-Day Transition Schedule Was Quixotic; Syneren Technologies Corporation, GAO B-418541.2, B-418541.3
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