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Best Value, Not Best Ratings: GAO Rejects Protester’s Tradeoff Challenge
GAO Sustains, Finds Agency Unreasonably Disregarded Past Performance Information
Domestic Certifications and SPRS Scores: Can the Agency Just Take an Offeror’s Word for It?
Best-Value Tradeoff: When Outstanding Isn’t Worth the Price
You Can’t Just Walk Away: Contractor Quits Two Months Into Five-Year Laundry Contract
Testing Times: Did DLA Unlawfully Block a Competitor from the Runflat Lubricant Market?
Federal Circuit Clarifies Application of Blue & Gold: Proposal Submission Deadline, Not Award, is the Operative Time for Filing
COFC Sustains Protest, Finds Agency’s Ratings Under Organization Factor Lacked a Rational Basis
Tales from the Crypt: COFC Rejects Challenge to Cemetery Expansion Contract
Why Higher Ratings Don’t Always Win
No Plans, No Printing: GAO Denies Protest of Nonresponsibility Finding
Is It In the Price? Failing to Ask Questions Before Bidding Costs Contractor $334,000
NAICS Code Showdown: OHA Finds that Providing Administrative Support of Healthcare Services Does Not Mean You’re Providing Healthcare Services
Design Debacle: The Government Promised a 100% Designed Project. It Delivered an Expensive Fiasco
Buried Treasure or Buried Trouble? Contractor’s Defective Specification Defense Falls Flat
When Historical Data Isn’t History: Contractor’s Negligent Estimate Claim Failed Despite Workload Changes
Protester Can’t Overcome Missing Attestation Form
GAO Denies Reconsideration Request, Holds Protester Can’t Assert New Arguments into Comments
You May Have Encountered Unexpected Conditions, But that Doesn’t Make Them “Differing Site Conditions”
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