COFC Has Jurisdiction Over Challenge to SBIR Award But Finds Protest Itself Meritless; Squire Solutions, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 21-1494COctober 21, 2021
GAO Bids a Curt Toodle-oo to Protester that Possessed Neither Interested-Party Status nor a Cognizable Legal Argument; Mountainside Medical Equipment, Inc., GAO B-419839October 21, 2021
“Well, I’ve Got Two Lovers and I Ain’t Ashamed, Two Lovers, and I Love them Both the Same”: Presented with a Sophie’s Choice Between Two Versions of Its Proposal, Protester Chooses the Wrong One; Property at 4545 Montgomery, LLC, GAO B-420006October 20, 2021
COFC Declines to Enjoin Performance of Protested Contract When Injunction Could Disrupt Nation’s Tax System; Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 21-1704COctober 20, 2021
GAO Recommends Costs for All Protester’s Arguments, Finds They Were Intertwined with Clearly Meritorious Argument; Odyssey Systems Consulting Group, Ltd—Costs, GAO B-419730.5October 20, 2021
Agency Erred in Assessing Strength for Feature Awardee Didn’t Propose; MetroStar Systems, Inc., GAO B-419890, B-419890-.2October 19, 2021
Solicitation’s Submission Instructions Were Confusing, and Protester Failed to Timely Challenge Defect; Continuity Global Solutions-SPP Security Joint Venture, GAO B-419997October 19, 2021
Despite Protester’s Contentions, GAO Finds Agency Didn’t Treat Incumbency as a Weakness; INNOVIUM, LLC, GAO B-419912, B-419912.2October 19, 2021
Ground Control to Major Tom, SpaceX’s Lunar Landing Contract’s On; Blue Origin Federation, LLC; Dynetics, Inc.-A Leidos Company, GAO B-419783 et al.October 18, 2021
Disclosure of Unredacted Protest to Awardee’s Staff Not that Big of a Deal; Midnight Sun-Centennial Kirratchiaq JV, LLC, GAO B-419934 et al.October 15, 2021
COFC Finds Awardee Waited Too Long to Intervene in Protest; SAGAM Securite Senegal v. United States, COFC No. 21-1138COctober 14, 2021
Requiring Offerors to Disclose Identity of Customers Is Not Unduly Restrictive; Tata American International Corporation, GAO B-419956.8October 13, 2021
GAO Can’t Hear Protest When Procuring Entity Is Not a Federal Agency; Qwest Government Services, Inc. d/b/a CenturyLink QGS, GAO B-420095October 13, 2021
The Thrill Is Gone: Jilted Incumbent Can’t Convince Agency (or GAO) that Company’s Still Got It Going On; Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., GAO B-419860, B-419860.2October 12, 2021
GAO Concludes It’s OK to Purchase “IT,” as Opposed to “IT Services,” Through LPTA Procurement; Coast to Coast Computer Products, Inc, GAO B-419833.2October 8, 2021
Protester Tries (and Fails) to Argue Self-Negating Tautology: “I’m Not Making a Price Realism Argument, I’m Just Sayin’ the Awardee’s Low Price Indicates an Unfeasible Approach”; Innovative Management Concepts, Inc., GAO B-419834.2, B-419834.3October 7, 2021
Employee of Subcontractor Can’t Prove He Had an Implied-in-Fact Contract with the Government; Frank Calapristi v. United States, COFC No. 18-612October 6, 2021
Awardee Satisfied Solicitation’s Certification Requirement; First American Business Solutions, GAO B-420002October 6, 2021
Agency Disregarded Solicitation, Conceived of a Different Cost Evaluation Method, and Failed to Meaningfully Assess Costs Between Competing Proposals; Africa Automotive Distribution Services, Ltd., GAO B-418246.6October 5, 2021
“Why’d You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated?”: Certification Requirement in Solicitation Was Not Unduly Restrictive; KPaul Properties, LLC, GAO B-419893, B-419893.6October 4, 2021
