Protester Cannot Complain that Awardee’s Pricing Structure Was Improper When Protester Used the Same Structure; Raytheon Company, GAO B-417524.2, B-417524.3February 19, 2020
Agency Decision to Not Set Aside Procurement for Veteran-Owned Businesses Was Unreasonable; Academy Medical, LLC, GAO B-418223, B-418223.2February 19, 2020
Corrective Action Allowing Unrestricted Proposal Revisions Unobjectionable Even Though Awardee’s Price and Technical Rating Had Been Disclosed to Other Offerors; DynCorp International LLC, GAO B-417704.5February 19, 2020
Quelle Horreur!: Protester’s Attempt to Castigate Agency for Failing To Understand Proposal About as Successful as an Adam Sandler Movie at Cannes; Caddell Construction Co. (DE), LLC v. United States, COFC No. 19-1568CFebruary 18, 2020
Argument that Agency Can’t Justify Fixed- Price Contract for a Call Center Fails to Connect; Prairie Quest, Inc., GAO B-417573.2February 18, 2020
Is There Any Way to Earn Extra Credit?: Agency Did Not Err in Failing to Assess Proposal Under an Introductory Paragraph in the Solicitation that Was Not an Evaluation Criterion; ZolonTech, Inc., GAO B-418213, B-418213.2February 18, 2020
Them’s the Breaks: Even If Familiar With Protester’s Experience, Agency Has No Obligation to Consider that Experience If It’s Not Included in Protester’s Technical Proposal; BEAT, LLC, GAP B-418235, B-418235.2February 14, 2020
Evaluators’ Failure to Consider Proposal’s Features A-OK Because Those Features Were Not a Factor in the Source Selection Decision; InuTeq, LLC, GAO B-416710.3, B-416710.4February 14, 2020
Agency Reasonably Rejected Highest-Rated, Lowest-Priced Proposal Due To Unrealistic Price; Integrity Management Consulting, Inc., GAO B-417942February 14, 2020
Agency Acted Judiciously in Cancelling Solicitation that Did Not Meet Its Needs; G2 Global Solutions, LLC, GAO B-416981.5February 14, 2020
Federal Circuit Confirms that Pills Manufactured in the U.S. that Contain an Active Ingredient from India Are Not Products of India for Purposes of the Trade Agreements Act; Acetris Health, LLC v. United States, Fed. Cir. No. 2018-2399February 13, 2020
Protester Facially Satisfied Requirements of Blue & Gold But Still Waived It Pre-Award Protest; Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 19-674February 13, 2020
CBCA Holds Off on Deciding Whether Procuring Agency or GSA is Proper Respondent in Claim Alleging Breach of FSS Contract; Avue Technologies Corporation v. Department of Health and Human Services and General Services Administration, CBCA 6360, 6627February 13, 2020
Agency Appropriately Jettisoned Proposal that Exceeded Page Limits; JJ Global Services, Inc. GAO B-418318February 13, 2020
Unsolicited Letter Sent to New Jersey State Officials, Cabinet Secretaries, and the U.S. Supreme Court is Not a Government Contract; Ibrahim v. United States, Fed. Cir. 2019-2300February 12, 2020
Incumbent That Received Highest Past Performance Rating Was Nonetheless Reasonably Excluded from the Competitive Range, Salem Community Hospital dba Salem Regional Medical Center, GAO B-418037February 12, 2020
Failure to Reconvene Evaluation Team As Part of Corrective Action Not Prejudicial Error Because SSA Has Discretion to Disregard Evaluators’ Findings; Battelle Memorial Institute, GAO B. 416263.5.February 12, 2020
Government Liable for Fees Contractor Incurred in Defending a Qui Tam Suit; The Tolliver Group, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 17-1763CFebruary 11, 2020
Protester’s Decision to Respond to PWS Objectives with High-Level Tables Instead of Narratives a Calamitous Faux Pas; Logistics Management Institute, GAO B-418160, B-418160.2February 11, 2020
COFC Is an “Appropriate Professional Authority” to Which a Lawyer May Report the Misconduct of Another Lawyer Under the Rules of Professional Conduct; The Hanover Insurance Company et al. v, United States, COFC 12-499C, 13-500C, 13-800C, 16-1187February 11, 2020