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You Can Ask the Agency to Clarify a Debriefing, But That Won’t Stop the Clock for an Agency Protest

Time for a Do-Over: GAO Finds Agency Mangled Discussions and Made Award to an Ineligible Offeror

Agency Said It Didn’t Need to Strictly Follow Solicitation When Making Award. Why Did GAO Think This Argument Undermined the Entire Bid Protest System?

Agency Excluded Protester Due to an OCI. Why Did COFC Think the OCI Was Illusory?

If You Want the Agency to Consider Key Person’s Experience, Highlight It. Don’t Expect an Agency to Infer Experience from a Resume.

GAO Finds Agency Phoned It in While Evaluating Awardee’s Labor Categories

Solicitation Said Award Would Go to the Quote that Represented the “Best Value.” Did This Mean the Agency Had to Conduct a Tradeoff?

Agencies Must Document a Proposal’s Strengths, Weaknesses, and Deficiencies. What’s an Agency Supposed to Do When a Proposal Is Merely Adequate?

February 29, 2024

Should the Agency Have Watched the Protester’s Instructional Videos?

February 28, 2024

Protester Had Some Bad Feelings About the Evaluation, But Suspicions Are Not Enough to Sustain a Protest

February 28, 2024

Protester Complained It Was Assessed a Weakness for a Minor Clerical Error. Why Did GAO Think the Error Was Neither Minor nor Clerical?

February 27, 2024

A Mentor-Protege JV Must Itemize the Equipment Furnished by Each Partner. But What’s a JV Supposed to Do When It’s Providing IT Services?

February 27, 2024

Requesting Reconsideration of a Protest Decision? Don’t Assert a New Argument You Could’ve Asserted in the Underlying Protest.

February 27, 2024

Protester Wanted More Explicit Discussions. GAO Said That’d Be Spoon-Feeding.

February 26, 2024

Protester Thought State Licensing Requirements Were Unduly Restrictive. GAO Said Protester Had to Deal with It.

February 26, 2024

Even the Protester Conceded Its Proposal Could’ve Been Clearer

February 26, 2024

Protester Runs the Table on Its Protest Arguments, Exposes Spurious Evaluation

February 23, 2024

Awardee Allegedly Dabbled in Bid Rigging and May Have Accessed Info on Protester’s Bidding Strategies. Why Didn’t this Invalidate the Award?

February 23, 2024

Proposal Contained an Absurd, $2.5 Billion Pricing Error. Should the Agency Have Sought Clarification?

February 22, 2024

Protester Filed a GAO Protest Ten Days After Its Agency Protest Was Denied. Why Was the GAO Protest Untimely?

February 22, 2024