Agency Reasonably Rejected Highest-Rated, Lowest-Priced Proposal Due To Unrealistic Price; Integrity Management Consulting, Inc., GAO B-417942February 14, 2020
Agency Acted Judiciously in Cancelling Solicitation that Did Not Meet Its Needs; G2 Global Solutions, LLC, GAO B-416981.5February 14, 2020
Federal Circuit Confirms that Pills Manufactured in the U.S. that Contain an Active Ingredient from India Are Not Products of India for Purposes of the Trade Agreements Act; Acetris Health, LLC v. United States, Fed. Cir. No. 2018-2399February 13, 2020
Protester Facially Satisfied Requirements of Blue & Gold But Still Waived It Pre-Award Protest; Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 19-674February 13, 2020
Agency Appropriately Jettisoned Proposal that Exceeded Page Limits; JJ Global Services, Inc. GAO B-418318February 13, 2020
Incumbent That Received Highest Past Performance Rating Was Nonetheless Reasonably Excluded from the Competitive Range, Salem Community Hospital dba Salem Regional Medical Center, GAO B-418037February 12, 2020
Failure to Reconvene Evaluation Team As Part of Corrective Action Not Prejudicial Error Because SSA Has Discretion to Disregard Evaluators’ Findings; Battelle Memorial Institute, GAO B. 416263.5.February 12, 2020
Government Liable for Fees Contractor Incurred in Defending a Qui Tam Suit; The Tolliver Group, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 17-1763CFebruary 11, 2020
Protester’s Decision to Respond to PWS Objectives with High-Level Tables Instead of Narratives a Calamitous Faux Pas; Logistics Management Institute, GAO B-418160, B-418160.2February 11, 2020
“Hey Look Ma, I’m a Supervisor!”: GAO Finds that Oversight of Personnel Is Unnecessary to Satisfy “Supervisory Experience” Requirement—Supervision of Equipment and Activities Is Sufficient; Rig Masters, Inc., GAO B-417374.5, B-417374.6February 10, 2020
GAO Reverses Itself Because It Applied the Wrong Legal Standard In a Costs Decision; Voith Hydro, Inc.—Costs—Reconsideration, GAO B-416243.5February 10, 2020
GAO Finds that Argument Alleging Unequal Access OCI Is the Legal Equivalent of Angel Food Cake—Superficially Enticing But Ultimately Airy and Unfulfilling; Absolute Business Solutions, Inc., GAO B-418184February 7, 2020
I’m Still Standing: Protester With Technically Unacceptable Proposal Still An Interested Party to Challenge Price Reasonableness Evaluation; Root9B, LLC, GAO B-417801, B-417801.2February 7, 2020
Protester That Filed Two Protests, Which Prompted Two Corrective Actions, Not Entitled to Reimbursement of Protest Costs; Columbia Ancillary Services, Inc., GAO B-416800.4February 7, 2020
GAO Finds Meritorious Protest Grounds Intertwined With Non-Meritorious Grounds Entitling Protester to All Its Protest Costs; WorldWide Language Resources, Inc. – Costs, GAO B-417015.6February 7, 2020
Protester Fails to Timely Challenge Terms of “Borderline Nonsensical,” “Rorschach Test” Solicitation But Still Prevails Because Agency Ignored Solicitation’s Evaluation Process; HVF West, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 19-1308CFebruary 6, 2020
GAO Unimpressed by Protester’s “You-Can’t-Improve-On-Perfection” Argument; Aderas, Inc., GAO B-418151February 6, 2020
Agency Reasonably Rejected Proposal Due to Risk of Overworked Personnel; ITI Solutions, Inc., GAO B-418132February 6, 2020
Third Place Offeror Not an Interested Party, Can’t Maintain Protest; Panum Telecom, LLC, GAO B-418202February 6, 2020
Remembrance of Things Past: Evaluators Not Required to Consider Subcontractor’s Past Performance on a Contract Just Because Agency Had Staff that Remembered the Performance; Yulista Tactical Services LLC, GAO B-417317.3 et al.February 5, 2020
