Protester Had Sufficient Notice of Agency’s Plan to Conduct Procurement Under the FAR’s Simple Acquisition Procedures; Colonna’s Shipyard, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 20-1385April 26, 2021
Government Not Required to Pay Contractor’s Assignee Until Agency Receives Notice of the Assignment; Allied Meridian Funding, LLC. v. Department of Agriculture, CBCA 6893April 26, 2021
GAO Sustains Protest, Finds that Agency Overrated Awardee, Underrated the Protester, and Botched the Best Value Determination; TekSynap Corporation, GAO B-419464, B-419464.2April 23, 2021
COFC Reaffirms that Runway Extension Act’s 5-Year Look-Book Period Does Not Apply to SBA’s Size Standards; Obsidian Solutions Group, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 20-1602CApril 23, 2021
“I Guess I Should Have Known, By the Way You Parked Your Car Sideways, that It Wouldn’t Last”: Factual Issues Preclude Summary Judgement in Appeal Involving Valet Parking Contract; In and Out Valet Company v. Department of Veterans Affairs CBCA 6519, 6994April 23, 2021
GAO Not Required to Advise Agency that It Failed to Adequately Support Its Arguments; Department of the Army—Reconsideration and Clarification of Remedy, GAO B-419150.2April 22, 2021
I’m a Lumberjack and I’m Okay: Agency’s Refusal to Extend Timber Sales Contract Not a Breach; Dawson & Douglas, Inc. v. Department of Agriculture, CBCA 6304, 6786April 22, 2021
Not In My House: COFC Lacks Jurisdiction to Hear Protest Against Administrative Office of U.S. Courts; Microgenics Corporation v. United States, COFC No. 21-896CApril 22, 2021
GAO Finds that Challenge to Award Failed to State a Valid Basis of Protest; PDS Consultants, Inc., GAO B-419300April 22, 2021
Protester, Who Submitted Proposal In Response to Initial Solicitation, Was Not Appropriate Party to Challenge Agency’s Decision to Amend, Rather than Cancel, Solicitation; RELYANT Global, LLC, GAO B-418693.7April 21, 2021
Mathematical Error in Government Estimate Did Not Negate Cost Realism Evaluation; Quanterion Solutions, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 20-1266CApril 21, 2021
Right Place, Wrong Time: GAO Finds that Protester’s Arguments Were Essentially Untimely Challenges to the Solicitation; AGMA Security Service, Inc., GAO B-419443April 21, 2021
GAO Declines to Find that Awardee Engaged In Bait-and-Switch with Members of Scientific Advisory Board; CDIC, Inc., GAO B-419254, B-419254.2April 20, 2021
ASBCA Refuses to Draw Adverse Inference from Agency’s Alleged Spoliation of Evidence; Appeals of Sungjee Construction Co. Ltd, ASBCA Nos. 62002, 62170April 20, 2021
Contractor Can’t Recover the Costs of Licenses It Purchased for Unexercised Option Periods; Mircotechnologies LLC d/b/a MicroTech v. Department of Justice, CBCA 6722April 20, 2021
Court Grants Motion to Supplement Protest Record, Finds that Additional Declarations Will Help Explicate Voluminous Technical Data; Mail Transportation, Inc. et al. v. United States, COFC No. 17-943CApril 20, 2021
GAO Denies Challenge to Best Value Decision, Finding Protest Was “Bereft of Analysis”; Ajanta Consulting LLC, GAO B-419523, B-419523.2April 20, 2021
Protester’s Proposal, Which Contained Deficiencies, Could Not Serve as Benchmark for Assessing Price Reasonableness; Adams Communication & Engineering Technology, Inc., GAO B-419052April 19, 2021