“It’s Not that I Don’t Want to Talk to You—I Don’t Want to Talk to Anyone”: Agency Reasonably Decided to Not Hold Discussions; Omni2H, LLC, GAO B-418655August 6, 2020
Past Contract’s Higher Dollar Value Doesn’t Make It a More Relevant Reference; Goldschmitt and Associates, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 20-469CAugust 6, 2020
COFC Finds that Scope of Corrective Action Not Limited to Redressing Error Identified in Protest—Agency May Also Use Corrective Action to Improve Procurement Process; ANHAM FZCO v. United States, COFC 19-1891CAugust 5, 2020
Failure to Include Required Key Personnel Information in the Key Personnel Section of Proposal Consigns Bid to the Reject Pile; Dawson Solutions, LLC, GAO B-418587, B-418567.2August 5, 2020
GAO Schools Agency for Assessing a Weakness Based on Alleged “Perfidious” Technical Proposal; Business Integra Technology Solutions, Inc., GAO B-418377.7August 4, 2020
Protester Contends that Agency’s Use of Corporate Buzzwords and Business-Speak Makes Solicitation Too Vague, But GAO Disagrees; Federal Acquisition Services Team OASIS JV, LLC, GAO B-418776August 4, 2020
Contracting in the Time of Cholera? Protester Appropriately Assigned a Weakness for Proposing Too Much Toilet Paper; Re-Engineered Business Solutions, Inc., GAO B-418640, B-418640.2August 4, 2020
Contractor Needed More than Clarifications to Remedy Flaws in Its Proposal; SigNet Technologies, Inc., GAO B-418677August 4, 2020
GAO Declines to Consider Question Concerning Awardee’s Small Business Status; DLF-CPC JV, LLC, GAO B-418581, B-418581.2August 3, 2020
Government’s Substantially Justified Legal Argument Precludes Fee Award Under EAJA; The Green Technology Group v. United States, COFC No. 19-907CAugust 3, 2020
Agency Properly Determined that Protester’s Past Performance References Not that Relevant; Al-Shahba General Contracting Establishment, GAO B-418697August 3, 2020
“Heard It From a Friend Who, Heard It From a Friend Who, Heard It From Another You’ve Been Messin’ Around”: GAO Tells Protester to Take It on the Run, Dismisses Speculative, Hearsay-Based Protest; Mitchco International, Inc., GAO B-418481.3, B-418481.4July 31, 2020
Post-Protest Explanations Can’t Fill the Gaps in a Flawed Proposal; Perspecta Enterprise Solutions, LLC, GAO B-418533.2, B-418533.3July 31, 2020
GAO Identifies the Lacunae In Agency’s Swiss Cheese Evaluation; Avionic Instruments LLC, GAO B-418604, B-418604.2July 30, 2020
No Disparate Price Evaluation When the Flaws in the Protester’s Price Quote Far Exceeded the Flaws in the Awardee’s Quote; Qwest Government Services, Inc. d/b/a CenturyLink QGS, GAO B-418649 et al.July 30, 2020
Agency Precipitously Removed Requirement from SBA’s 8(a) Business Development Program; Eminent IT, LLC, GAO B-418570 et al.July 30, 2020
GAO Castigates Agency for Inadequately Documenting its Evaluation and Concocting Feeble, Post-Hoc Rationalizations for its Conclusions; Leumas Residential, LLC, GAO B-418635July 29, 2020
Protester Not Prejudiced by Task Order Solicitation Outside the Scope of Underlying IDIQ Contract; American Systems Group, GAO B-418667July 29, 2020
Just Because the Protester Can Conceive of a More Efficient Production Schedule Doesn’t Mean the Solicitation is Unduly Restrictive; Colonial Press International, Inc., GAO B-418718July 29, 2020
Protester Tries (and Fails) to Argue that Deficiencies Introduced Into Its Revised Proposal Were the Result of Misleading Discussions; General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc., GAO B-418533July 28, 2020
