VA’s Attempt to Conduct Procurement While Simultaneously Transferring Its Requirements to Another Agency Is a Glorious, Self-Immolating Debacle; Medline Industries, Inc. & Concordance Healthcare Solutions, LLC v. United States, COFC Nos. 21-1174 and 21-1098August 20, 2021
The Banality of “Lethal”: GAO Determines that Requirement to Address “Entire Weapon System Kill Chain” Requires “Modeling Lethality”; Sigmatech, Inc. GAO B-419656 et al.August 19, 2021
If A > B and B > C , then A > C: Protest Foiled by the Transitive Property; Salient CRGT, Inc., GAO B-419759, B-419759.8August 18, 2021
Government Is Judicially Estopped from Arguing that Solicitation Requirement May Be Reinterpreted “as if It Were a Work of Modern Art” to Produce a Different Outcome in Different Protests; WaveLink, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 20-749CAugust 17, 2021
Protester Claims Solicitation Violates Agency Regulations, But GAO Tells Protester to Hit the Road Because the Violated Regulations Were Not Procurement Regulations; NOVAD Management Consulting, LLC, GAO B-419194.5August 17, 2021
Bidders Didn’t Complain About Patent Ambiguity in Solicitation, But Agency Still Rightly Cancelled It; Young’s General Contracting, Inc., GAO B-418717.3August 16, 2021
Agency Misevaluated Key Personnel, But Protester’s Price Was Unreasonably High, So the Error Didn’t Matter; Dust Busters Plus, LLC, GAO B-419853.7August 16, 2021
Agency’s Mistake Didn’t Prejudice Protester; ACI Technologies, Inc. v. United States, COFC No 18-860CAugust 16, 2021
Communication Breakdown: Agency Muffed Evaluation by Failing to Inform Protester of Significant Weakness During Discussions; Sunglim Engineering & Construction Company, Ltd., GAO B-419067.3August 13, 2021
Solicitation Didn’t Mandate Price Realism Analysis, So Agency Couldn’t Perform One; Inbound, LLC, GAO B-419853.5August 13, 2021
Agency Appropriately Cancelled Solicitation So It Could Seek More Bids to Increase Competition; Carl R. Jones Excavating & Hauling, LLC, GAO B-419717.4August 13, 2021
Court Finds that Price Realism Analysis Was “a Strange Mess of the Government’s Own Making”; CW Government Travel, Inc. A/K/A CWTSatoTravel v. United States, COFC No. 21-1354CAugust 12, 2021
Incumbent Protester Can’t Complain that Agency Failed to Compare Proposed Compensation to Incumbent Compensation When It Refused to Provide Agency with Incumbent Rates; Criterion Systems, Inc., GAO B-419749 et al.August 12, 2021
Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200: Court Finds PIA Violation, Directs Agency to Disqualify Offeror that Received Information from Protester’s Proposal; SAGAM Securite Senegal v. United States, COFC No. 21-1138CAugust 11, 2021
No Unequal Discussions When Agency Was Only Seeking Clarifications; E3 Federal Solutions, LLC d/b/a Avantus Federal, GAO B-419712, B-419712.2August 11, 2021
Protester’s Unstated Criteria Argument Could “Not Withstand Logical Scrutiny”; Federal Acquisition Services Team OASIS JV, LLC, GAO B-418776.6, B-418776.7August 11, 2021
Agency Did Not Err in Finding Protester’s Price, Which Was 194% Greater than Government Estimate, Unreasonable; NTT Data Services Federal Government, LLC, GAO B-419197.2August 10, 2021
GAO Finds Agency Phoned-In OCI Investigation; Steel Point Solutions, LLC, GAO B-419709, B-419709.2August 9, 2021
Legislative Change that Reduced Rent Paid to Contractor Not a Breach; United Communities, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 20-1220CAugust 9, 2021
