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
Ban-the-Box Law Limits Criminal Background Inquiries by Federal Contractors Beginning in December 2021January 17, 2020
DFARS Amended to Prohibit Procurement of Telecommunications Equipment from Chinese CompaniesJanuary 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
Just Because Solicitation Seeks Some Engineering Work Does Not Mean it Must Be Designated Under an NAICS Code for Engineering Services; NAICS Appeal of Paradigm Engineers and Constructors, PLLC, SBA No. NAICS-6040January 16, 2020
ASBCA Confirms that the Government’s Failure to Identify a Defect During Construction is a Constructive Waiver of the SpecificationsJanuary 16, 2020
Even A Little Early Can Be Late: GAO Rules that Proposal Emailed Prior to Submission Deadline but Received Minutes Afterward was UntimelyJanuary 16, 2020
