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ASBCA Declines to Hear Rejected Bidder’s Claim for Proposal Costs; Appeal of Vox Optima LLC, ASBCA No. 62313
Awardee’s Use of Compressed Line Spacing in Proposal’s Text Did Not Run Afoul of Solicitation’s Page Formatting Requirements; CACI, Inc.—Federal, GAO B-418110.3 et al.
Factual Issues Concerning Contractor’s Inability to Obtain Bonds Thwarts Government’s Summary Judgment Motion; Appeals of Odyssey International, Inc., ASBCA Nos. 62085, 62145, 62193
Agency Appropriately Evaluated Past Performance by Considering Quality Rather than Quantity of Offerors’ References; LATA-Atkins Technical Services, LLC, GAO B-418602, B-418602.4
Despite Agency’s Provocative Metaphysical Distinction Between a Contractor-Subcontractor Relationship and the Bond Between Subsidiaries, Provision that Precluded Subcontractor from Satisfying Certification Requirement Was Unduly Restrictive; Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., GAO B-418449
“I’m Kind of a Big Deal . . . I Have Many Leather-Bound Books and my Apartment Smells of Rich Mahogany”: Key Person’s Impressive, Credentialed Background Did Not Merit a Significant Strength; Navarro Research and Engineering, Inc., GAO B-418602.2, B-418602.5
Protester’s Challenges to Solicitation Crash into Ditch of Futility; Trademasters Service, Inc., GAO B-418522
You’re Not my Huckleberry: Agency Appropriately Rejected Proposal Due to Key Person’s Lack of Hands-On Experience; Facility Services Management, Inc., GAO B-418526 et al.
Agency Did Not Err in Using the Incumbent’s Quote to Establish the Government Estimate; CDS Services, Inc. GAO B-418376.2
Supplemental Protest Alleging that Agency Failed to Identify Technical Strengths Is Untimely; Jacobs Polar Services-CH2M Facility Support Services, GAO B-418390.2 et al.
Agency Reasonably Cancelled Solicitation that Did Not Satisfy Its Needs; Alliance Technology Group, LLC, GAO B-418558
Agency Not Required to Identify Board to Which Claimant May Appeal; Mahavir Overseas v. Agency for International Development, CBCA 6704
OHA Reverses SBA Area Office, Finding It Misapplied Ostensible Subcontractor Rule; Size Appeal of Contego Environmental, LLC, Re: Indigo Blue Construction, LLC, SBA SIZ-6054
Contractor Does Not Act Under Authority of or as Proxy for Government; HEALTHeSTATE, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 18-034C
No Costs for Unsuccessful Protest Arguments That Were Not Related to or Intertwined with Successful Argument; BluePath Labs, LLC –Costs, GAO B0417960.4
“But First, Are You Experienced?”: Agency Justified in Rejecting Proposal Due to Lack of Corporate Experience; NIKA Technologies, Inc., GAO B-418563
Allegation that Awardee’s Proposed Item Are Not Energy-Efficient Fizzles; Alvarez, LLC, GAO B-418367.6, B-418367.7
Federal Circuit Holds that Protest Challenging Agency’s Disclosure of Information to Offerors Is Barred by Blue & Gold—Dissent Questions Whether Blue & Gold Is Still Valid; Inserso Corporation v. United States, Fed. Cir. 2019-1933
“It’s Too Late, Baby Now, It’s Too Late, Though We Really Did Try to Make It”: Protest Arguments, Which Were Essentially Challenges to the Solicitation, Dismissed as Untimely; American Systems Group, GAO B-418535
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