Agency Decision to Terminate Contract for Convenience Rather Then Defend Award is not Protestable; Lyon Shipyard, Inc., GAO B-417734.2October 24, 2019
GAO Declines to Hear Protest Challenging Items on AbilityOne Commission’s Procurement List; Team Wendy, LLC, GAO B-417700.2October 24, 2019
Protest Alleging a “Smorgasbord of Bloopers” Fails to Live Up to the Hype; AECOM Management Services, Inc – Advisory Opinion; GAO B-417501.12October 24, 2019
Agency Did Not Mislead Protester Concerning the Issuance of a Solicitation; Async-Nu Microsystems, GAO B-417822October 23, 2019
COFC Denies Protester’s Request for Stay Pending Appeal; NetCentrics Corporation v. United States, COFC No. 19-839COctober 23, 2019
Federal Circuit Affirms that Lobbyists’ Salaries are Not Recoverable Costs; Raytheon Company v. Secretary of Defense, Fed. Cir. No. 2018-2371October 23, 2019
Contract to Remove a Tree Once Owned by Teddy Roosevelt Did Not Give Contractor a Property Right in the Tree; Looks Great Services, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 19-937COctober 22, 2019
Agency Not Obliged to Accept Protester’s Proposed Labor Rates While Ignoring Actual, Conflicting Payroll Data in the Proposal; Raytheon Company, GAO B-417731, B-417731.2October 22, 2019
Counterintuitive Argument that Agency Wrongly Found Protester’s Costs Reasonable Fails to Persuade GAO; DynCorp International, LLC, GAO B-417506, B-417506.10October 22, 2019
Use of Small Font for Parts of Proposal Did Not Violate Solicitation’s Formatting Requirements; Metropolitan Interpreters and Translators, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 19-748COctober 21, 2019
Bare Bones CVE Appeal Denied for Failure to Identify Error in Notice of Status Cancellation; In the Matter of Cali Electric, Inc., SBA No. CVE-135-AOctober 21, 2019
Offeror’s Failure to Provide Passwords for Encrypted Portions of its Proposal Renders Proposal Unacceptable; Opus Group, LLC, GAO B-413104.40October 21, 2019
Agency’s Unquestioning Acceptance of Awardee’s Plan to Cut Salaries of Incumbent Staff Results in Defective Cost Realism Evaluation; Abacus Technology Corporation-Costs, GAO B-416390.6October 21, 2019
Protester’s Claim that Agency Disclosed Propriety Information was Unsupported by Evidence; Trinity Global Consulting, LLC, GAO B-4127823October 18, 2019
“Minor Errors” in Proposal Could Not Be Resolved with Clarifications; KeyW Corporation, GAO B-0417774, B-417774.2October 18, 2019
COFC Lacks Jurisdiction Over Contract and Takings Claims that were Effectively Challenges to FCC Orders; Sandwich Isles Communications, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 19-149October 18, 2019
Subgrantee of Federal Disaster Relief Agreement is Neither Party to Nor Beneficiary of a Government Contract; Columbus Regional Hospital v. United States, COFC No. 18-1299COctober 17, 2019
FASA’s Jurisdictional Bar Negates Protest of a Task Order Modification; Akira Technologies, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 19-1160COctober 17, 2019
Failure to Clarify a Patent Ambiguity Before Accepting Contract Dooms Contractor’s Claim; Chupnick v. Social Security Administration, CBCA 6539October 16, 2019
Government’s Half-Hearted Performance Breaches Settlement Agreement; Rocky Mountain Helium, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 15-336COctober 16, 2019