Double Your Pleasure/Double Your Fun: Modification of Requirements Contract that Doubled the Items Required Was Not a Cardinal Change; Navistar Defense, LLC v. United States, COFC Nos. 19-1268C & 19-1417CJanuary 28, 2020
Ima Wait and See What Happens: Failure to Respond to Notices Announcing Agency’s Plan to Bundle Requirements Nullifies Contractor’s Ability to Challenge the Bundling; W&G Machine Company, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 19-1696CJanuary 28, 2020
You Can’t Get There From Here: Protester Fails to Substantiate Claims About Awardee’s Inability to Satisfy a Travel Time Requirement; SOC LLC, GAO B-418027, B-418027.2January 28, 2020
“You Are Beautiful No Matter What They Say”: Awardee’s Technical Approach Outstanding Despite Weakness; Watershed Security, LLC, GAO B-417178.4, B-417178.6January 27, 2020
When You Need to Demonstrate that your Approach Satisfies Solicitation Requirements, Don’t Just Refer GAO to Page Numbers in your Proposal; Fortem Solutions, LLC, GAO B-415716.39January 24, 2020
Agency Reasonably Found Awardee’s Low Price Realistic; Epic Systems, Inc., GAO B-418104, B-418104.2January 24, 2020
“To quoque!”: Protester Can’t Claim that Awardee Failed to Follow RFP Instruction When Protester Failed to Follow that Same Instruction; Spatial Front, Inc., B-417985, B-417985.2January 23, 2020
Agency’s Cancellation of Solicitation Was Not a Pretext to Avoid Resolution of Protest; Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC, GAO B-417475.5, B-417475.6January 22, 2020
When a Solicitation Requires Offerors to Make Recommendations, Simply Stating that Your Recommendations Will Utilize Your Knowledge, Initiative, and Experience Will Not Cut It; 22nd Century Technologies, Inc., GAO B-418029 et al.January 22, 2020
Agency Reasonably Rejected Proposal That Failed to Delineate Experience of Key Individual; Deloitte Consulting, LLP, GAO B-416882.4January 21, 2020
Protester Cannot Fault Agency for Failing to Find a Flaw in Its Price Proposal: Wellspring Worldwide, Inc., GAO B-417282.2 et al.January 21, 2020
GAO Sustains Protest, Refuses to Accept a Teaming Agreement as Substitute for a Letter of Commitment from Key Personnel; IT Objects, LLC, GAO B-418012, B-418012.2January 17, 2020
You Don’t Know What I Need: Protest Alleging that Solicitation Does Not Reflect Agency Requirements Leaves GAO Unfulfilled; Seventh Dimension, LLC, GAO B-417630.2, B-417630.3January 17, 2020
“There Ain’t No Good Guy, There Ain’t No Bad Guy. There’s Only You and Me and We Just Disagree”: Disagreement With Agency About Weight of Evaluation Concerns and Flaws in Proposal Cannot Sustain Protest; Undercover Training, LLC, GAO B-418170January 17, 2020
Cherry-Picked, Decontextualized Portions of Awardee’s Proposal Were Not Material Exceptions to the Solicitation; Verizon Business Network Services, Inc., GAO B-418073 et al.January 17, 2020
Agency Cannot Establish a Blanket Purchase Agreement Under Multiple Federal Supply Schedule Contracts; NCS Technologies, Inc., GAO B-417956, B-417956.2January 16, 2020
Flawed Best Value Analysis—Which Created “False Impression of Equivalence” Among Proposals—Turned Acquisition Into Lowest-Priced Technically-Acceptable Procurement; System Studies & Simulation, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 19-1518CJanuary 16, 2020
Even If Alternative Evaluation Methodologies Would Have Improved Agency’s Price Analysis, the Method the Agency Used was Not Unreasonable; NTT DATA Services Federal Government, Inc., GAO B-417235.2, B-417235.3January 16, 2020
Generalia Specialibus Non Derogant: GAO Confirms that in Government Contracts, the General Does not Detract from the Specific; Strategic Management Solutions, LLC, GAO B-416598.3, B-416598.4January 15, 2020
