Price Evaluation in Restricted Small Business Phase of Procurement Irrelevant to Price Evaluation in Unrestricted Phase; Protest of Grant Thornton, LLP, FAA No. 19-ODRA-00-858May 22, 2020
No Evidence of Government Control in Dispute Over Late Proposal; GAO B-418443, Cla-Val CompanyMay 22, 2020
Protest Premature Even Though Corrective Action Didn’t Give Protester Result It Wanted; GAO B-417748.5, Kord Technologies Inc.May 22, 2020
An Agency and Awardee Do Not Have a Common Interest in Crafting the Scope of a Corrective Action; Peraton, Inc., GAO B-416916.5, B-416916.7May 21, 2020
Sole-Source Award Justified By “Unusual and Compelling Urgency”; SSI Technology, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 19-1947May 21, 2020
Protest Premised on Superficial Comparison of Adjectival Ratings Implodes; AKAL Security, Inc, GAO B-417840.4May 21, 2020
Appellant Plausibly Asserted CO’s Expectations Impossible to Achieve; CBCA No. 6621, ITS Group Corp. v. Department of AgricultureMay 21, 2020
It Pays to Pay Attention: Agency Report Should Have Flagged Protester to Additional Protest Grounds; GAO B-418068, Applied Sciences & Information Systems Inc.May 21, 2020
Solicitation Did Not Provide Enough Information for Offerors to Intelligently Propose Staffing; ASRC Federal Data Network Technologies, LLC; Ekagra Partners, LLC, GAO B-418085.4May 20, 2020
Contractor’s Claim for Reimbursement of a Fine Accrued When the Fine Was Assessed Not When It was Paid; Appeals of Reed International, Inc., ASBCA Nos. 61451, 61452, 61453May 20, 2020
Period for Determining Business’s Size is the Last Three Completed Fiscal Years—the Current Year Doesn’t Count; Size Appeal of Oak Grove Technologies, LLC, re: F3EA, Inc., SBA No. SIZ-6051May 20, 2020
Agency Can Base Competitive Range Solely on Price; GAO B-418448, Regency Enterprises Services LLCMay 20, 2020
Agency Reasonably Restricted Competition to Offerors Whose FSS Contracts Would Extend Through Lengthy Life of BPA: GAO B-418405, Information Innovators Inc.; NARTech Inc.; 22nd Century Technologies Inc.May 20, 2020
“You Talkin’ to Me?” Exchanges with Awardee Regarding Small Business Subcontracting Plan Did Not Amount to Discussions; Hanford Integrated Infrastructure Services Contractor, LLC, GAO B-418411 et al.May 19, 2020
Agency Not Obligated to Ignore Incumbent’s Negative Past Performance Just Because the Company Instituted “Performance Improvements”; Sterling Medical Associates, Inc., GAO B-418384, B-418384.2May 19, 2020
Court in Patent Infringement Case Against Government Issues Notice to Non-Parties Using Patented Technology In Government Contracts; Science Applications International Corp. v. United States, COFC No. 17-CV-00825CMay 19, 2020
Contractor Failed to Correct Problems in JV Agreement Despite Losing Earlier Protest on That Very Basis; CVE Protest of U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs Re: CR Nationwide LLC—Trumble Construction Inc. JV1, SBA No. CVE-148-PMay 19, 2020
Motion for TRO Premature When Contents of Claim Not Yet Settled; COFC No. 19-1610C, BHB Ltd. Partnership & Indiana Associates Ltd. Partnership of Washington D.C. v. United States and RPT 1425 New York Avenue LLCMay 19, 2020
Proposals May Contain Multitudes: Agency Didn’t Err in Assigning a Strength and a Risk to the Same Feature of Protester’s Proposal; Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 19-1421CMay 18, 2020
Attempt to Maintain SDVOSB Status with Apparent Straw Man Veteran Collapses; In the Matter of SDVE, LLC, SBA No. VET-283May 18, 2020