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Requirement that Offerors Have Access to Proprietary Technical Manuals was Not an Unjustified Noncompetitive Procedure; Chromalloy San Diego Corporation v. United States, COFC No. 19-974C
Protester Cannot Submit Information in Its Proposal and then Complain that the Agency Considered It; Avalon Contracting, Inc., GAO B-417845, B-417845.2
Agency Helped Awardee’s Product Shed Pounds Before Weigh-in; GAO B-417830, High Noon Unlimited, Inc.
Subcontractor Successfully Pleads that It’s a Third Party Beneficiary of Prime’s Contract with Government; Constructora Guzman, S.A. v. United States, COFC No. 19-498C
Agency Does Not Treat Offerors Unequally When it Applies the Buy American Act and Trade Agreements Act in Accordance with the FAR; Becton, Dickinson and Company, GAO B-417854
Instructions for Proposal Revisions Did Not Preclude Awardee from Adjusting Labor Rates Downward; ARES Technical Services Corporation, GAO B-415081.5
SBA Proposed Rule: Consolidation of Mentor-Protege Programs and Other Government Contracting Amendments
COFC Protest Challenging Agency’s Bundling Decision Barred by FASA’s Jurisdictional Limitation; InSap Services, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 19-1565C
Agency Reasonably Penalized Proposal for Overselling Protester’s Capabilities; CyberData Technologies, LLC, GAO B-417816
Federal Circuit Endorses Substance Over Form, Allows Contractor to Offset Disallowed Benefits Costs with an Amendment to its Benefits Plan; Secretary of Defense v. Northrop Grumman Corporation, Fed. Cir. Nos. 2018-1945, 2018-1990
Ineligible Proposal Negates Protester’s Interested Party Status; VetsTec, LLC, GAO B-418164
Pre-Award Protest Fails by Assuming Improper Evaluation; Chromalloy Component Services, Inc., GAO B-417362.2
Request for Reimbursement of Costs Dismissed for Lack of Diligent Pursuit; Quantum Dynamics, Inc. – Costs, GAO B-416490.2
DFARS: Negotiation of Price for Technical Data and Preference for Specially Negotiated Licenses
Award of Sole-Source Follow-On Contract Justified by Continuity Concerns; Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 19-1064C
Lack of Available Pilots Shoots Down Claim for Unpaid Transportation Services; ASBCA No. 59708, Appeal of AAR Airlift Group Inc.
Size Protest Sunk By Lack of Supporting Evidence; Size Appeal of Wilson Walton International, Inc., SBA No. SIZ-6031
Failure to Respond to CVE Document Request Results in Loss of SDVOSB Status; CVE Appeal of David Han d/b/a Coresivity, SBA No. CVE-140-A
Navy’s Alleged Failure to Define Common, Long-Standing Nautical/Aviation Terms in Solicitation Not Enough to Sustain Protest; Creative Custom Products, GAO B-417761
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