It’s the Government Not Burger King: You Don’t Get to Have the Solicitation Your Way; Appian Corporation, GAO B-417837.2May 1, 2020
Error-Filled Evaluation Not Enough to Sustain Protest When Protester’s High Price Still Forecloses Chance for Award; Perspecta Enterprise Solutions, LLC, GAO B-416377.6, B-416377.7May 1, 2020
Request For Costs Negated By Inartfully Worded Proposal; Oready, LLC—Costs, GAO B-418297.2May 1, 2020
Protest Sustained Because Agency Ignored Cost Data in Protester’s Proposal; Sayres & Associates Corporation; GAO B-418374April 30, 2020
Major in Something Useful: Proposed Employee’s Liberal Arts Degrees Failed to Satisfy Requirement for Bachelor’s in Computer Science; RIVA Solutions, Inc., GAO B-418408April 30, 2020
Solicitation that Required Awardee to Enter Agreements With Third Parties Was Consistent with Customary Commercial Practices; Sterisyn, Inc., GAO B-4168366 et al.April 30, 2020
Alleged Unstated Criteria Were Encompassed by Stated Criteria; Pond Constructors, Inc., GAO B-418403April 30, 2020
Evaluation that Failed to Qualitatively Assess Proposals a Little Too Perfunctory for GAO’s Taste; CEdge Software Consultants, LLC, GAO B-418128.2April 29, 2020
Bidder With Highest Price Among Acceptable Proposals Lacked Standing to Protest Award in LPTA Procurement; Eskridge & Associates v. United States, Fed. Cir. No. 109-1862April 29, 2020
Even If Agency Disparately Waived Solicitation Requirement, Protester Couldn’t Complain Because its Proposal Was Still Unacceptable Under a Different Requirement; Airline Data Inc., LLC, GAO B-418472April 29, 2020
Agency Had Discretion to Consider Magnitude, and Not Just Quantity, of Strengths Assigned to Offerors; American Relocation Connections, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 19-1874April 23, 2020
Protester Waited Too Long to Object to Alleged Consultant Conflict of Interest; General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc., GAO B-417616.2 et al.April 22, 2020
Rule of Two Not Satisfied When the Only Two SDVOSBs are Affiliated and Owned by the Same Person; MCI Diagnostic Center, LLC, GAO B-417901.3April 21, 2020
No Impaired Objectivity OCI Where Awardee Would Not Evaluate Its Own Work; GovernmentCIO, LLC, GAO B-418363 et al.April 21, 2020
Protester’s Incumbency Status Does Not Give It a Pass on Responding to Transition Plan Requirement; InGenesis, Inc., GAO B-416564.3April 21, 2020
Offeror’s Participation in Development of Item Being Procured Did Not Create OCI; AAR Manufacturing Inc., GAO B-418339April 20, 2020
Solicitation Did Not Require a Realism Evaluation, so Protest Challenging Lack of Realism Evaluation is D.O.A.; Abacus Technology Corporation, GAO B-417749.2, B-417749.3April 20, 2020
Awardee’s Approach to Professional Compensation—High Wages, Low Fringe Benefits—Did Not Create Risk of Unsuccessful Performance; Engility Services, LLC, GAO B-416588.3, B-416588.4April 17, 2020
Agency Reasonably Found Protester’s Rock Bottom Prices Unrealistic; ACTA, LLC, GAO B-418352, B-418352.2April 17, 2020
“We go together like rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong”: Costs Warranted for Protest Argument That Was Not Severable from Other Clearly Meritorious Arguments; Global Linguist Solutions, LLC—Costs, GAO B-417015.19April 17, 2020
