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FAR Council Adds Australia to the List of WTO Countries
Protester Had Notice of Protest Grounds Despite Agency’s Contradictory Communications; Alphapointe, GAO B-417834
Small Business Runway Extension Act is Not Operative Until SBA Implements It; Size Appeal of Cypher Analytics Inc. d/b/a Crown Point Systems, SBA No. SIZ-6022
Protester Not Entitled to Costs Incurred in Pursuing Costs Claim; Hope Village, Inc.—Costs, GAO B-414342.7
FAR Amended to Prohibit Products and Services from Russian Cybersecurity Firm
Awardee Can Intervene in Protester’s Suit to Override Automatic Stay; Winston-Salem Industries for The Blind, Inc. d/b/a IFB Solutions v. United States, COFC No. 19-1328C
Protester’s Reliance on Subcontractors Riskier than Awardee’s Reliance on Subsidiary; Austal USA, LLC, GAO B-417593
Equitable Adjustment Appropriate Where Agency Assumed Contractor’s Duty to Identify SCA Positions; Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc. v. Department of Agriculture, CBCA 6029, 6030
FAR Amended to Reflect Merger of PPIRS with CPARS
Agency May Rely on Lower-Weighted Factor to Discriminate Between Proposals; Defense Base Services, Inc., GAO B-416874.3, B-416874.4
Conversion of Sealed Bid to Negotiated Procurement was Reasonable; Perimeter Security Partners, LLC, GAO B-417591
Requirement to Propose Loaded Labor Rates Does Not Mean Offerors Must Provide Direct Compensation Rates; FEDSYNC BEI, LLC, GAO B-417492, B-417492.2
Parties’ Course of Dealing Negates Agency’s Interpretation of Contract; Appeal of Fluor Federal Solutions, LLC, ASBCA No. 61093
Government Not Liable for Failing to Provide a Component It Never Promised to Furnish; Appeal of Optimization Consulting, Inc., ASBCA No. 58752
Small Business Cannot Make Income Evanesce by Characterizing It as a “Depreciation Reversal”; Kingfisher Systems, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 19-693C
Supplementation of Record Unnecessary for Court to Decide Reasonableness of Restrictive Requirement; Chromalloy San Diego Corporation v. United States, COFC No. 19-974C
Courtesy Copy of Previously Mailed Notice of Termination Extended Time to Appeal Termination; Appeal of Langdon Engineering & Mgt., ASBCA No. 61959
Christian Doctrine Does Not Bar Claim for Costs Incurred Complying with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; Kudsk Construction, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 18-1032C
Protester Eliminated from Competition Lacks Standing to Challenge Change in Agency Requirements; TRAX International Corporation v. United States, COFC 19-685C
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