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Agency Decision to Not Set Aside Procurement for Veteran-Owned Businesses Was Unreasonable; Academy Medical, LLC, GAO B-418223, B-418223.2
Corrective Action Allowing Unrestricted Proposal Revisions Unobjectionable Even Though Awardee’s Price and Technical Rating Had Been Disclosed to Other Offerors; DynCorp International LLC, GAO B-417704.5
Quelle Horreur!: Protester’s Attempt to Castigate Agency for Failing To Understand Proposal About as Successful as an Adam Sandler Movie at Cannes; Caddell Construction Co. (DE), LLC v. United States, COFC No. 19-1568C
Argument that Agency Can’t Justify Fixed- Price Contract for a Call Center Fails to Connect; Prairie Quest, Inc., GAO B-417573.2
Is There Any Way to Earn Extra Credit?: Agency Did Not Err in Failing to Assess Proposal Under an Introductory Paragraph in the Solicitation that Was Not an Evaluation Criterion; ZolonTech, Inc., GAO B-418213, B-418213.2
Them’s the Breaks: Even If Familiar With Protester’s Experience, Agency Has No Obligation to Consider that Experience If It’s Not Included in Protester’s Technical Proposal; BEAT, LLC, GAP B-418235, B-418235.2
Evaluators’ Failure to Consider Proposal’s Features A-OK Because Those Features Were Not a Factor in the Source Selection Decision; InuTeq, LLC, GAO B-416710.3, B-416710.4
Agency Reasonably Rejected Highest-Rated, Lowest-Priced Proposal Due To Unrealistic Price; Integrity Management Consulting, Inc., GAO B-417942
Agency Acted Judiciously in Cancelling Solicitation that Did Not Meet Its Needs; G2 Global Solutions, LLC, GAO B-416981.5
Federal Circuit Confirms that Pills Manufactured in the U.S. that Contain an Active Ingredient from India Are Not Products of India for Purposes of the Trade Agreements Act; Acetris Health, LLC v. United States, Fed. Cir. No. 2018-2399
Protester Facially Satisfied Requirements of Blue & Gold But Still Waived It Pre-Award Protest; Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 19-674
CBCA Holds Off on Deciding Whether Procuring Agency or GSA is Proper Respondent in Claim Alleging Breach of FSS Contract; Avue Technologies Corporation v. Department of Health and Human Services and General Services Administration, CBCA 6360, 6627
Agency Appropriately Jettisoned Proposal that Exceeded Page Limits; JJ Global Services, Inc. GAO B-418318
Unsolicited Letter Sent to New Jersey State Officials, Cabinet Secretaries, and the U.S. Supreme Court is Not a Government Contract; Ibrahim v. United States, Fed. Cir. 2019-2300
Incumbent That Received Highest Past Performance Rating Was Nonetheless Reasonably Excluded from the Competitive Range, Salem Community Hospital dba Salem Regional Medical Center, GAO B-418037
Failure to Reconvene Evaluation Team As Part of Corrective Action Not Prejudicial Error Because SSA Has Discretion to Disregard Evaluators’ Findings; Battelle Memorial Institute, GAO B. 416263.5.
Government Liable for Fees Contractor Incurred in Defending a Qui Tam Suit; The Tolliver Group, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 17-1763C
Protester’s Decision to Respond to PWS Objectives with High-Level Tables Instead of Narratives a Calamitous Faux Pas; Logistics Management Institute, GAO B-418160, B-418160.2
COFC Is an “Appropriate Professional Authority” to Which a Lawyer May Report the Misconduct of Another Lawyer Under the Rules of Professional Conduct; The Hanover Insurance Company et al. v, United States, COFC 12-499C, 13-500C, 13-800C, 16-1187
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