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Protester Said Agency Wrongly Attributed Affiliate’s Experience to Awardee. Why Didn’t GAO Break a Sweat?
Challenging Adjectival Ratings Is Often a Road to Oblivion
Limitation on Subcontracting—Does It Broach a Question of Acceptability or Contract Administration?
COFC Sustains Challenge to Realism Evaluation and Best Value Determination. What Went Wrong?
Protester Challenged Award of Sagebrush Seeding Contract. Why Didn’t the Protest Arguments Find Purchase at GAO?
Did the Agency Have a Defensible Legal Position or Were Its Ramparts Built on Pool Noodles?
CBCA Reminds GSA the Sum Certain Requirement Applies to Agencies Too
SDVOSB Planned to Delegate Work to a Subcontractor. Why Didn’t this Delegation Violate the Ostensible Subcontractor Rule?
Contractors Bear the Risk of Fixed Price Contracts. So Why Couldn’t Offerors on this Fixed Price Contract Propose Labor Rates They Wanted?
Army Said Sikorsky’s Bid on Gargantuan Helicopter Contract Was Unacceptable. Why Did GAO Agree?
Company Emailed with SBA after Status Determination. Was SBA’s Email Response a New Determination?
Protester Said Agency Ignored Awardee’s Performance on Incumbent Contract in Assessing Technical Approach. Why Was GAO Unconcerned?
Can an Offeror Fill the Gaps in Its Corporate Experience with the Personal Experience of Its Founder/President?
Agency Asked Offerors to Submit Points of Contact for Prior Contracts. Was the Agency Required to Actually Contact those People?
When Does an Agency Waive the Right to Terminate for Default?
Claims Case Study No. 1: Agency Said Claim on Appeal Differed from Claim Submitted to CO. Why Did ASBCA Let the Appeal Proceed?
Claims Case Study No. 2: Agency Said Claim on Appeal Differed from Claim Submitted to CO. Why did ASBCA Dismiss the Appeal?
Either the Contractor Deviously Underbid So It Could Spring a Claim on the Agency or the Contract Was Poorly Drafted. What Did ASBCA Decide?
I Didn’t Appeal My Denied Claim in Time. Can I Resubmit the Claim and File a Timely Appeal from a New Denial?
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