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Contractor Unprepared for Scale and Complexity of Building U.S. Consulate Facility in India Is Primarily Responsible for Significant Construction Delays; CBCA 3350; Yates-Desbuild Joint Venture v. Department of State
GAO Dismisses Challenges to Ongoing Corrective Action and Denies Challenge to Task Order Requirement Contemplated in Underlying IDIQ; GAO B-415176.3, Erickson Helicopters Inc.
Contractor Fails to Recover Costs for Additional Work After Executing Release and Receiving Final Payment; ASBCA No. 61065, Washington Star Construction Company
Agency Fairly Downgraded Past Performance Rating Due to Protester’s Failure to Submit Required Number of Projects; GAO B-413682.4, The Arcanum Group Inc.
Protester Fails to Demonstrate Agency Obliged to Seek Waiver to Nonmanufacturer Rule; GAO B-415267, AeroSage LLC, SageCare Inc.
GAO Denies Protestor’s Challenges to Essentially Every Aspect of Agency’s Evaluation Under Stated Factors and Agency’s Best Value Decision; GAO B-414005, Vector Planning & Services, Inc.
Procuring Agency Is Not Required to Make a Small Business Set-Aside Determination Before a Commercial Availability Determination, and Vice Versa; COFC No. 16-1453C, Analytical Graphics, Inc. v. United States
Acquisition of 90 Percent of Firm Makes Acquirer Sole Successor-In-Interest, While Acquirer of Remaining 10 Percent is Affiliated Only With 10 Percent It Acquired; SBA No. SIZ-5858, Native Energy & Technology, Inc.
Contractor Fails to Demonstrate That Lease Provision for Reimbursement of Real Estate Taxes Also Covered Several Other County Taxes; CBCA 5269, 5659, NOAA Maryland LLC
CBCA Denies EAJA Application Finding Agency Substantially Justified on Contractor’s Breach of Contract Claim; CBCA 5739-C, Dream Management Inc.
Protestor Fails to Demonstrate That Its Proposal was Technically Superior or that the Agency Conducted a Flawed Best Value Determination; GAO B-414569.8, Janus Global Operations LLC
SSA’s Removal of Strengths and Weaknesses Assigned to Quotations Results in Flawed Best Value Determination; GAO B-415155, Immersion Consulting LLC
New CRS Report Examines Changes to HUBZone Program in FY18 NDAA
Reduction in Price Allow Insufficient to Trigger New Risk Assessment; GAO B-414331.5, Specmat Technologies Inc.
Challenges to Agency’s Evaluation and OCI Determinations Fail to Revive Protestor’s Technically Unacceptable Quotation; GAO B-413204.5 et al, Verisys Corporation
GSA Loses Protest for Bundling Requirements Under JWOD Procurement; GAO B-415137, Goodwill Industries of the Valleys, Source America
Employee Stock Options Included in Indirect Costs Unallowable but Not Subject to Penalty; ASBCA No. 60086, Luna Innovations Inc.
Disagreement with Reasonable Evaluation Insufficient to Carry Protest; GAO B-414621, Family Health International
Joint Venture Reasonably Excluded from Competition Based on Member’s Participation in Establishing Ground Rules for the Procurement; GAO B-415036, HBI-GF JV
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