Welcome to the weekly online journal focused entirely on GAO Bid Protests of Federal Government contract awards brought to you by the Government Contracts Practice Group at General Counsel, P.C.. This site will be updated at least once a week with analysis and summaries of the latest GAO Bid Protest decisions and information to help professionals and business owners make informed decisions on protesting a contract solicitation or award.

Search our archives past GAO protest decisions and come back often to keep up to date on the latest trends and legal decisions in Bid Protests. If you have questions about filing a Bid Protest or you were awarded a contract that has been protested, please contact the editor immediately as missing a filing deadline is the quickest way to lose your right to protest or defend your award.

Discussions Archive

  • Link:         GAO Opinion Agency:    Department of Homeland Security Disposition:  Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of PAE Government Services, Inc., based on the award of a contract to Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc. (KBR), under a request for proposals (RFP),...

    PAE Government Services, Inc., B-407886; B-407886.2; B-407886.3; B-407886.4, March 22, 2013

    Link:         GAO Opinion Agency:    Department of Homeland Security Disposition:  Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of PAE Government Services, Inc., based on the award of a contract to Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc. (KBR), under a request for proposals (RFP),...

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  • Link:         GAO Opinion Agency:    Department of the Army Disposition:  Protests sustained. General Counsel P.C. Highlight:  GAO sustained the protests of Mission Essential Personnel, LLC (MEP), regarding the issuance of two task orders to L-3 STRATIS, under a task order request for proposals (RFP), issued by...

    Mission Essential Personnel, LLC, B-407474; B-407493, January 7, 2013

    Link:         GAO Opinion Agency:    Department of the Army Disposition:  Protests sustained. General Counsel P.C. Highlight:  GAO sustained the protests of Mission Essential Personnel, LLC (MEP), regarding the issuance of two task orders to L-3 STRATIS, under a task order request for proposals (RFP), issued by...

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  • Link:         GAO Opinion Agency:    Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition:  Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Walsh Investors, LLC, regarding the award of a contract to Fedcar Company Ltd., under a solicitation issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for...

    Walsh Investors, LLC, B-407717; B-407717.2, January 28, 2013

    Link:         GAO Opinion Agency:    Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition:  Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Walsh Investors, LLC, regarding the award of a contract to Fedcar Company Ltd., under a solicitation issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for...

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  • Link:         GAO Opinion Agency:    National Aeronautics and Space Administration Disposition:  Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight:  GAO denied the protest of MRI Technologies, regarding the award of a contract to S&K Global Solutions, LLC (SKG), under a request for proposals (RFP), issued by the National...

    MRI Technologies, B-407421; B-407421.2, December 28, 2012

    Link:         GAO Opinion Agency:    National Aeronautics and Space Administration Disposition:  Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight:  GAO denied the protest of MRI Technologies, regarding the award of a contract to S&K Global Solutions, LLC (SKG), under a request for proposals (RFP), issued by the National...

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  • Link:         GAO Opinion Agency:    Department of Agriculture Disposition:  Protest denied. Keywords:   meaningful discussions; debriefing; unfair competitive advantage General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Next Tier Concepts, Inc., based on the Department of Agriculture’s issuance of a delivery order to Emagine IT, Inc.,...

    Next Tier Concepts, Inc., B-406620.3; B-406620.4, November 13, 2012

    Link:         GAO Opinion Agency:    Department of Agriculture Disposition:  Protest denied. Keywords:   meaningful discussions; debriefing; unfair competitive advantage General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Next Tier Concepts, Inc., based on the Department of Agriculture’s issuance of a delivery order to Emagine IT, Inc.,...

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  • Link: GAO Decision Protestor: NikSoft Systems Corporation Agency: Department of the Treasury Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency reasonably concluded that protester’s responses to agency’s discussions questions introduced risk regarding the level of resources that protester was committing to perform the fixed-price portion of...

    NikSoft Systems Corporation, B-407195, B-407195.2, November 27, 2012

    Link: GAO Decision Protestor: NikSoft Systems Corporation Agency: Department of the Treasury Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency reasonably concluded that protester’s responses to agency’s discussions questions introduced risk regarding the level of resources that protester was committing to perform the fixed-price portion of...

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  • Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. Agency: Department of the Army, Army Material Command Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency held defective discussions is denied where agency did not hold discussions with either offeror, did not invite either offeror to revise...

    Pinnacle Solutions, Inc., B-406998, B-406998.2, October 16, 2012

    Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. Agency: Department of the Army, Army Material Command Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency held defective discussions is denied where agency did not hold discussions with either offeror, did not invite either offeror to revise...

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  • Link: GAO Decision Protestor: General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc. Agency: Department of the Navy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Contracting officer’s determination that there was no organizational conflict of interest that would preclude an award to the awardee...

    General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc., B-407069, B-407069.2, November 1, 2012

    Link: GAO Decision Protestor: General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc. Agency: Department of the Navy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Contracting officer’s determination that there was no organizational conflict of interest that would preclude an award to the awardee...

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  • Link: GAO Decision Protestor: SENTEL Corporation Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging an agency’s evaluation and selection decision is denied where the record demonstrates that the evaluation and selection decision were reasonable and consistent with the solicitation’s evaluation...

    SENTEL Corporation, B-407060, B-407060.2, October 26, 2012

    Link: GAO Decision Protestor: SENTEL Corporation Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging an agency’s evaluation and selection decision is denied where the record demonstrates that the evaluation and selection decision were reasonable and consistent with the solicitation’s evaluation...

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  • Link: GAO Decision Protestor: CWTSatoTravel Agency: General Services Administration Disposition: Protest Denied. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency unreasonably and unequally evaluated proposals is denied where record reflects that evaluation was reasonable and consistent with solicitation’s evaluation criteria and that differences in offerors’ evaluation findings...

    CWTSatoTravel, B-404479.3, B-404479.4, September 24, 2012

    Link: GAO Decision Protestor: CWTSatoTravel Agency: General Services Administration Disposition: Protest Denied. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency unreasonably and unequally evaluated proposals is denied where record reflects that evaluation was reasonable and consistent with solicitation’s evaluation criteria and that differences in offerors’ evaluation findings...

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