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Denial of Protest Moots Challenge to Agency’s Decision to Override the CICA Stay; Safeguard Base Operations, LLC v. United States, Fed. Cir. No. 2019-1160
Contractor Unable to Shift Blame for it Problems with a Subcontractor on to Agency; Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure, Inc. v. Department of the Interior, CBCA 5168, 6298
Allegation that GAO Failed to Consider Protest Argument Falls Flat—GAO Can’t Consider Argument Protester Did Not Make; Analytical Solutions by Kline, LLC, GAO B-417161.3
Agency Was Not Required to Consult Past Performance Volume When Evaluating Technical Approach; Council for Logistics Research, Inc., GAO B-417974
Proposed Fitness Equipment Not Up To Snuff; Quality Specialty Products; GAO B-417279.3
Protester’s Attempt to Blame its Unacceptable Rating on Amazon’s Cloud Platform Rather than its Own Coding Decisions Fails; Accenture Federal Services, LLC, GAO B-417857
Informal Prediction Made During GAO Litigation Risk Assessment ADR Does Not Make Protest Clearly Meritorious; Tom & Jerry, Inc.—Costs, GAO B-417474.2
ASBCA Dismisses Appeal Based on Apparent Fraudulent Claim; Appeal of Kamran Zaland Supplies and Services, ASBCA 61339
Allegation that Awardee’s Employee “Masqueraded as a Janitor” at the Agency Not Enough to Prove OCI; ORBIS Sibro, Inc., GAO B-417406.2, B-417406.3
Potentially Meritorious Supplemental Protest Cannot Salvage a Non-Meritorious Initial Protest For Cost Reimbursement Purposes; Noble Supply and Logistics, Inc.—Costs, GAO B-417571.4
Restating Words from the RFP Fails to Demonstrate Required Technical Experience; InterImage, Inc., GAO B-415716.29
Decontextualized Emails Not “Damning” Enough for CBCA to Impose Discovery Sanctions on Agency; SBC Archway Helena, LLC v. General Services Administration, CBCA 5997, 6464
Termination for Cause Warranted Where Contractor Made False Statement to the Government; Philip Emiabata, DBA Philema Brothers v. United States, Fed. Cir. 2019-1041
Reevaluation of Proposal After Corrective Action Does Not Need to Conform to Original Evaluation; Global Asset Technologies, LLC, GAO B-416576.8, B-416576.9
Agency’s Failure to Discuss Protester’s Higher Price Did Not Make Discussions Meaningless; ARC Relocation, LLC, GAO B-416035.2, B-416035.3
Protester Lacks Standing to Challenge Awardee’s Size in an Unrestricted Procurement Where the Awardee Did Not Claim to Be Small; Size Appeal of ALOG Corporation, Re: GAP Solutions, Inc., SBA No. SIZ-6030
GAO Refuses to Consider Protester’s Implied Challenge to Agency’s Responsibility Determination; VSE Corporation, GAO B-417908, B-417908.2
Failure to Challenge a Patent Ambiguity Before the Proposal Deadline Results in Dismissal of Protest; MFL Consulting, GAO B-417939, B-417939.2
Solicitation Requirement that Could Be Satisfied with “Prudent Business Planning” Is Not Unreasonable; SHABA Contracting, GAO B-417934
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