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Can an Agency Consider the Experience of Individual Employees When Assessing Corporate Experience?
Protester Learns the Hard Way Not to Expect an Agency to Infer Information Not Explicitly Stated in the Proposal
Protester Said Corrective Action Failed to Address Flaws in Procurement. GAO Didn’t See It that Way.
Agency Argued GAO Cited Inapposite Law. GAO Said Citation Was Cool Because It Was Prefaced by “cf.” Introductory Signal.
Putative Small Business Recently Earned Hundreds of Millions. Why Was the Company Still Considered Small?
So the Agency Took Corrective Action. That Doesn’t Mean Your Protest Arguments Were Slam Dunks.
Is the Agency Required to Quantify the Risks and Benefits of Paying a Price Premium?
Picking an NAICS Code for a Procurement Is Harder Than You’d Think
COFC, “Gobsmacked” by Frivolity of Contractor’s Argument, Sanctions Counsel for Wasting Court’s Time
Protester Unable to Overcome Enormous Price Premium
Solicitation Which Sought Janitorial Services Should Have Been Assigned NAICS Code for . . . Janitorial Services
Protester “Inadvertently Miscounted the Days” When Calculating Deadline for Comments on Agency Report. GAO Was Unmoved.
GAO Can Only Hear Protests of Task Orders that Exceed $25 million. But How Does GAO Determine Task Order Value?
Mentor-Protege JVs Can Bid on Small Business Contracts for Two Years. Why Did this JV Think It Had a Four-Year Window?
Can a Veteran Control an SDVOSB If They Live Hundreds of Miles Away from Company Headquarters?
Jilted Offeror Asserted It Could Satisfy Agency’s Needs. GAO Wasn’t Convinced.
Awardee’s Price Was Double the Protester’s. Why Wasn’t the Awardee’s Price Unreasonably High?
Don’t Expect an Agency to Read the Between the Lines of Key Personnel Resumes
Small Business Was Acquired by a Large Business Right Before Proposal Submission. Why Was the Acquired Company Still Considered Small?
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