Agency Appropriately Determined that It Could Lease Printers Through LPTA Procurement; Coast to Coast Computer Products, Inc., GAO B-419624.2July 14, 2021
VA Properly Awarded Short-Term Sole-Source Contract While Conducting a Corrective Action; RCG of North Carolina, LLC, GAO B-419691July 14, 2021
No Impaired Objectivity OCI Where Awardee Would Not Be Evaluating Itself; CGS Administrators, LLC, GAO B-419539, B-419539.2July 13, 2021
Protester that Failed to Challenge Evaluation of Nine Intervening Offerors Not an Interested Party in Protest; Gulf Civilization General Trading & Contracting Company, GAO B-419754, B-419754.2July 1, 2021
Protester Tries to Prove Evaluator’s Bias with Hearsay, Fails; Squire Solutions, Inc. GAO B-419477.2June 30, 2021
Failure to Propose an Air Ionization System Leaves Protester Choking in Miasma of Disappointment; Journey Aviation, LLC, GAO B-419368.2, B-419368.3June 29, 2021
Court Finds Department of Defense Manual Does Not Have Force and Effect of Law; LAX Electronics, Inc. d/b/a Automatic Connector v. United States, COFC No. 19-1668CJune 28, 2021
What, Me Worry? GAO Unimpressed with Agency’s Nonchalant Response to Disclosure of Incumbent’s Pricing; Inmarsat Government, Inc., GAO B-419583, B-419583.2June 25, 2021
Protester’s Inability to Fathom Awardee’s Low Price Not Enough to Sustain a Protest; American Electronics, Inc., GAO B0419659, B-419659.2June 25, 2021
Agency Reasonably Rejected Proposal Due to Non-Key Person’s Lack of Experience; Program Insite, LLC, GAO B-419646June 24, 2021
GAO Rejects Argument that Was Inconsistent with Position Protester Took in Proposal; Qwest Government Services, Inc. d/b/a CenturyLink QGS, GAO B-419597, B-419597.2June 22, 2021
Just Because Proposed Key Person Is Working on Another Contract Doesn’t Mean They’re Unavailable; Peraton, Inc., GAO B-416916.12, B-416916.13June 22, 2021
Protester’s Middling Performance on Incumbent Contract Undermines It Proposal for Successor Contract; Vectrus Systems Corporation v. United States, COFC No. 20-2053CJune 21, 2021
Protester Was Not Next In Line for Award, So It Lacked Standing to Protest; IAP World Services, Inc. GAO B-418735.3, B-418735.4June 21, 2021
Court Finds that Implementation of Price Competition into AbilityOne Procurements Is Illegal; Melwood Horticultural Training Center, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 20-1884CJune 18, 2021
Agency Erred in Considering Past Performance of Joint Venture Member for Aspects of Contract Member Was Not Proposed to Perform; Yang Enterprises, Inc., GAO B-418922.2, B-418922.6June 18, 2021
Offeror Not Required to Contact Proposed Key Personnel to Confirm Availability; Manhattan Strategy Group, LLC, GAO B-419040.3June 17, 2021
Federal Circuit Clarifies Distinction Between Bid Protest and Size Protest; Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC v. United States, Fed. Cir., 2020-1703June 16, 2021
“’Cause Baby Now We Got Bad Blood, You Know It Used to Be Mad Love”: Protester’s Incumbency Status Does Not Entitle It to Highest Evaluation Ratings; ENGlobal Government Services, Inc., GAO B-419612, B-419612.2June 16, 2021
Court Applies “Mirror Image” Rule, Finds Government Did Not Accept Brokerage Commission Provision in Lease Proposal; Two Rivers Corporate Centre, L.P. v. United States, COFC NO. 20-1811CJune 16, 2021