Agency Official Was Married to Key Member of Awardee’s Proposal Team, But Relationship Did Not Create Disqualifying OCI; Appsential, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 21-804June 2, 2021
Contractor Can’t Simultaneously Claim that It Was Fraudulently Induced to Enter Contract and that Government Breached Contract; E&I Global Energy Services, Inc. v. United States, COFC 19-244CJune 1, 2021
Reevaluation Not Unreasonable Just Because It Differs from Initial Evaluation; CACI, Inc.—Federal, GAO B-418400.7, 418400.8June 1, 2021
Agency Omitted Information Required for Small Business Set-Aside, Which Made Solicitation Ambiguous, But Did Not Mean Procurement Was No Longer a Set-Aside; M R Pittman Group, LLC, GAO N-419659May 28, 2021
GAO Recommends Protester Recover Most of Its Protest Costs But Denies Reimbursement for Arguments Protester Abandoned; Protection Strategies, Inc.—Costs, GAO B-419302.3May 28, 2021
Federal Circuit Doesn’t Let GSA Wriggle Out of Real Estate Taxes Owed to Contractor; NOAA Maryland, LLC v. Administrator of the General Services Administration, Fed. Cir. 2020-1548May 27, 2021
Protest Challenging Award of “Transport-of-Deceased” Services Contract Succumbs Under GAO Scrutiny; Blackhawk Medical Transportation, Inc., d/b/a Vandenberg Ambulance, GAO B-419465.2, B-419465.3May 27, 2021
Proposal Was Late and Ineligible Even Though Agency Evaluated It; D B Systems, GAO B-419542May 27, 2021
GAO Finds Procurement Plagued by Application of Unstated Criteria, Insufficient Documentation of Ratings, and a Botched Best Value Decision; FreeAlliance.com, LLC; Radus Software LLC/Radus CTA; Mobomo, LLC, GAO B-419201.3 et al.May 26, 2021
Agency Properly Rejected Proposal Due to Lack of Security of Clearance; Tridentis, LLC, GAO B-418690.4May 26, 2021
GAO Reaffirms that Agency’s Decision to Not Exercise Options is Not a Procurement; VanderHouwen & Associates, GAO B-419706May 26, 2021
GAO Finds that Continuity Errors Are Not Just a Problem for B Movies; Soft Tech Consulting, Inc., GAO B-419488 et al.May 25, 2021
Protester’s Failure to Notify Navy of Subcontractor’s Corporate Transaction Deep-Sixes Proposal; Morgan Business Consulting, LLC, GAO B-418165.6, B-418165.9May 25, 2021
Agency Did Not Err in Finding Protester’s Experience as Incumbent “Quaffable But Not Transcendent”; A-P-T Research, Inc., GAO B-419459May 25, 2021
Agency Held Unequal Exchanges By Only Allowing the Awardee to Revise Its Proposal; AECOM Management Services, Inc., GAO B-418828.4 et al.May 24, 2021
GAO Rejects Challenge to Conduct of Discussions as Futile—Even If Protester Had Been Able to Address Shortcomings in Proposal, Its Standing Would Not Have Improved; GAO B-419271.4, Qwest Government Services, Inc. d/b/a CenturyLink QGSMay 24, 2021
Corrective Action Did Not Address Merits of Every Argument Raised in Protest, But that Didn’t Mean the Agency Failed to Take Meaningful Corrective Action; ORBIS Sibro, Inc., GAO B-418165.7 et al.May 24, 2021
Protester Alleged that Awardee Proposed Wrong Color Scheme, But GAO Found Scheme Did not Offend Solicitation; Shuttlewagon Inc., GAO B-419518 et al.May 21, 2021
GAO Confronts Enduring, Vexatious Question that Has Confounded Our Best Minds for Generations: Is Greenland In Europe or North America?; Vectrus Systems Corporation, GAO B- 419143, B-419143.2May 20, 2021
