Say the Magic Words: Agency Not Required to Use Words from Solicitation’s Adjectival Definitions in the Evaluation Narrative; U.S. Facilities, Inc., GAO B-418229, B-418229.2February 27, 2020
Offeror Failed to Follow Solicitation Instructions, Neglected to Submit a Required Representation, And Was Thus Rightly Eliminated From the Competition; Global Accounting, LLC, GAO B-417822.2, B-417822.3February 26, 2020
Protest Challenging Corrective Action Fails to Persuade; Unissant, Inc., GAO B-418193.2February 26, 2020
Agency’s Prior Use of Prototype Other Transactions Authority for One Part of a Project Does Not Preclude It From Using Experimental Purchasing Authority for Another Part of the Project; Air Tractor, Inc, GAO B-418244, B-418244.2February 25, 2020
Protester Entitled to Costs for Defending Against Agency’s Request for Reconsideration; Barbaricum LLC—Costs, GAO B-416728.4February 25, 2020
Proposal’s Weaknesses Not Weak Enough to Merit Discussions; Education Development Center, Inc.; GAO B-418217, B-418217.2February 24, 2020
Other Than a General “I-Know-It-When-I-See-It” Argument, Protester Unable to Identify Specific Reason Awardee’s Price Was Unrealistically Low; RELI Group, Inc., GAO B-418005February 24, 2020
Agency’s Superficial and Conclusory OCI Investigation Results in a Sustained Protest; Inquiries, Inc., GAO B-417415.2February 21, 2020
Agency’s Discussions Did Not Coerce Protester Into Raising Its Price; Quality Control International, LLC, GAO B-417984February 21, 2020
How an Agency Loses a Protest and Alienates Offerors: (1) Invent a Solicitation Requirement, (2) Find Offerors Met Requirement Even Though Proposals Didn’t Contemplate It, (3) Adjust Prices to Reflect Cost of Non-Existent Requirement; PMSI, LLC d/b/a Optum Workers’ Compensation Services of Florida, GAO B-417237 et al.February 20, 2020
Agency Erred By Re-Procuring After Default Instead of Conducting a New Competition; Steel Point Solutions, LLC, GAO B-418224, B-418224.2February 20, 2020
Protester Cannot Complain that Awardee’s Pricing Structure Was Improper When Protester Used the Same Structure; Raytheon Company, GAO B-417524.2, B-417524.3February 19, 2020
Agency Decision to Not Set Aside Procurement for Veteran-Owned Businesses Was Unreasonable; Academy Medical, LLC, GAO B-418223, B-418223.2February 19, 2020
Corrective Action Allowing Unrestricted Proposal Revisions Unobjectionable Even Though Awardee’s Price and Technical Rating Had Been Disclosed to Other Offerors; DynCorp International LLC, GAO B-417704.5February 19, 2020
Quelle Horreur!: Protester’s Attempt to Castigate Agency for Failing To Understand Proposal About as Successful as an Adam Sandler Movie at Cannes; Caddell Construction Co. (DE), LLC v. United States, COFC No. 19-1568CFebruary 18, 2020
Argument that Agency Can’t Justify Fixed- Price Contract for a Call Center Fails to Connect; Prairie Quest, Inc., GAO B-417573.2February 18, 2020
Is There Any Way to Earn Extra Credit?: Agency Did Not Err in Failing to Assess Proposal Under an Introductory Paragraph in the Solicitation that Was Not an Evaluation Criterion; ZolonTech, Inc., GAO B-418213, B-418213.2February 18, 2020
Them’s the Breaks: Even If Familiar With Protester’s Experience, Agency Has No Obligation to Consider that Experience If It’s Not Included in Protester’s Technical Proposal; BEAT, LLC, GAP B-418235, B-418235.2February 14, 2020
Evaluators’ Failure to Consider Proposal’s Features A-OK Because Those Features Were Not a Factor in the Source Selection Decision; InuTeq, LLC, GAO B-416710.3, B-416710.4February 14, 2020
