Agency Misevaluated Key Personnel, But Protester’s Price Was Unreasonably High, So the Error Didn’t Matter; Dust Busters Plus, LLC, GAO B-419853.7August 16, 2021
Agency’s Mistake Didn’t Prejudice Protester; ACI Technologies, Inc. v. United States, COFC No 18-860CAugust 16, 2021
Communication Breakdown: Agency Muffed Evaluation by Failing to Inform Protester of Significant Weakness During Discussions; Sunglim Engineering & Construction Company, Ltd., GAO B-419067.3August 13, 2021
Solicitation Didn’t Mandate Price Realism Analysis, So Agency Couldn’t Perform One; Inbound, LLC, GAO B-419853.5August 13, 2021
Agency Appropriately Cancelled Solicitation So It Could Seek More Bids to Increase Competition; Carl R. Jones Excavating & Hauling, LLC, GAO B-419717.4August 13, 2021
Court Finds that Price Realism Analysis Was “a Strange Mess of the Government’s Own Making”; CW Government Travel, Inc. A/K/A CWTSatoTravel v. United States, COFC No. 21-1354CAugust 12, 2021
Incumbent Protester Can’t Complain that Agency Failed to Compare Proposed Compensation to Incumbent Compensation When It Refused to Provide Agency with Incumbent Rates; Criterion Systems, Inc., GAO B-419749 et al.August 12, 2021
Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200: Court Finds PIA Violation, Directs Agency to Disqualify Offeror that Received Information from Protester’s Proposal; SAGAM Securite Senegal v. United States, COFC No. 21-1138CAugust 11, 2021
No Unequal Discussions When Agency Was Only Seeking Clarifications; E3 Federal Solutions, LLC d/b/a Avantus Federal, GAO B-419712, B-419712.2August 11, 2021
Protester’s Unstated Criteria Argument Could “Not Withstand Logical Scrutiny”; Federal Acquisition Services Team OASIS JV, LLC, GAO B-418776.6, B-418776.7August 11, 2021
Agency Did Not Err in Finding Protester’s Price, Which Was 194% Greater than Government Estimate, Unreasonable; NTT Data Services Federal Government, LLC, GAO B-419197.2August 10, 2021
Agency Waited Too Long to Revoke Acceptance of Non-Conforming Items; Appeal of Standbuy Distributors, Inc., ASBCA No. 62721August 10, 2021
OHA Reverses SBA Area Office, Finds Size Determination was Not Supported by Facts or Law; Size Appeal of Leumas Residential, LLC, SBA No. SIZ-6103August 10, 2021
GAO Finds Agency Phoned-In OCI Investigation; Steel Point Solutions, LLC, GAO B-419709, B-419709.2August 9, 2021
Legislative Change that Reduced Rent Paid to Contractor Not a Breach; United Communities, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 20-1220CAugust 9, 2021
Agency’s Change of Course During Corrective Action Was Not Fraud on the Court; Clarke Health Care Products, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 20-413CAugust 9, 2021
Agency Misconstrues Protester’s Approach, Disparately Evaluates Quotations, Loses Protest; Mayvin, Inc., GAO B-419301.6, B-418301.7August 6, 2021
Even If It Existed, Alleged Implied Contract Would Have Contravened Federal Regulations; 6601 Dorchester Investment Group, LLC v United States, COFC No. 20-1427CAugust 6, 2021
Contractor Alleges Task Order Was a Stand-Alone Contract, But CBCA Finds It’s Just a “Funding Document”; Roc Joi Medical Imaging, LLC v. Department of Veterans Affairs, CBCA 6885, 7051August 6, 2021