Timely Quotation Was Quarantined by Agency’s Email System, But GAO Finds Agency Still Doesn’t Have to Consider It; AttainX, Inc. GAO B-420313February 11, 2022
Protester Failed to Challenge Basis on Which Agency Rejected Its Proposal, So It Was Not an Interested Party; AIS Engineering, Inc., GAO B-420431.2February 11, 2022
Agency Erred in Assessing a Deficiency, But The Protester Wasn’t Prejudiced; BNP Education Partners LLC d/b/a Marzano Research, GAO B-420247February 11, 2022
Proposal Undone By Less Than Stellar Oral Presentation; XL Associates, Inc., GAO B-420078, B-420078.2February 10, 2022
Proposal’s 102% Escalation Rate Between the Base Year and First Option Year Results in Finding of Unbalanced Pricing; Doore Tour Company, Ltd., GAO B-420326February 10, 2022
Agency Not Required to Discern Timeframes from Offeror’s Proposal; J.E. McAmis, Inc., GAO B-420310February 10, 2022
COFC Renounces GAO Rule, Declines to Find Offeror Has Duty to Notify Agency of Changes in Personnel; Golden IT, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 21-1966CFebruary 9, 2022
Protester Couldn’t Convince FAA that Its Approach Was Not High Risk; Protest of Rockwell Collins, Inc., FAA 21-ODRA-00886February 9, 2022
Protester Reasonably Received a Weakness for Merely Acknowledging RFP Requirement Instead of Showing How It Would Meet those Requirements; Emagine IT, Inc., GAO B-420202, B-420202.2February 8, 2022
Protester Persuades COFC that Ambiguity in Solicitation Was Latent, Not Patent, Convinces Court to Effectively “Reverse” Earlier GAO Decision; CGS-SPP Security Joint Venture v. United States, COFC No. 21-2049CFebruary 7, 2022
Protester Didn’t Heed Concerns Raised During Discussions, Can’t Complain About Risk Assessed to Its Proposal; Dev Technology Group, Inc., GAO B-4202030, B-420230.2February 7, 2022
Protester’s Unstated Criteria and Unequal Treatment Allegations Fail to Persuade; Favor TechConsulting, LLC, GAO B-420279 et al.February 7, 2022
“Something Is Rotten in the State of Denmark”: Court Finds Award Is Tainted by Possible PIA Violation, Remands to Agency for an Investigation; Insight Public Sector, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 21-cv-1755February 2, 2022
Communications with Agency Constituted an Agency Protest, Which Set the 10-Day Clock Running for a GAO Protest; Science and Technology Corporation, GAO, B-420216February 1, 2022
GAO Interrogates the Nebulous Gray Area Between an Evaluation and a Non-Responsibility Determination; A. Prentice Ray & Associates, LLC, GAO B-419024.5, B-419024.6February 1, 2022
Protester Should’ve Been Keeping an Eye on SAM.gov, Not Social Media; Kolb Grading, LLC, GAO B-420310.2January 31, 2022
Protester Attempts to “Re-Litigate” Arguments From Prior, Successful Protest But Can’t Recapture the Magic; PAE National Security Solutions, LLC, GAO B-419207.6January 31, 2022
GAO Reaffirms that Price Realism Evaluation Is Not a Non-Responsibility Determination; Monbo Group International, GAO B-420269, B-420269.2January 31, 2022
Offeror Doesn’t Need to Neutralize an OCI Before the Agency Can Waive It; Steel Point Solutions, LLC, GAO B-419709.3January 28, 2022
“Sometimes When We Touch, the Honesty’s Too Much”: Awardee’s Over-Elucidation of it Approach Tips Clarification into Unequal Discussions, But Protester Wasn’t Prejudiced; ENGlobal Government Services, Inc., GAO B-419612.3January 28, 2022