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Timeliness of Protest Archive
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Cyberdata Technologies, Inc., B-406692, August 8, 2012
Posted on August 29, 2012 | No CommentsLink: GAO Decision Protestor: Cyberdata Technologies, Inc. Agency: General Services Administration Disposition: Protest Sustained. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protester’s argument that its technically acceptable quotation was excluded from the competition without consideration of price in a best value acquisition for the establishment of blanket purchase agreements... -
Millennium Space Systems, Inc., B-406771, August 17, 2012
Posted on August 29, 2012 | No CommentsLink: GAO Decision Protestor: Millennium Space Systems, Inc. Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest Dismissed in Part; Denied in Part. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: A debriefing provided in a procurement conducted as a Broad Agency Announcement pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) § 6.102(d)(2)... -
Qwest Government Services, Inc., B-405425, B-405425.3, December 9, 2011
Posted on August 8, 2012 | No CommentsLink: GAO Decision Protestor: Qwest Government Services, Inc. Agency: Department of the Interior Disposition: Protest Denied. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency’s assessment of risk in the protester’s price proposal was reasonable where the protester based its price on assumptions that were not stated in the solicitation.... -
CH2M Hill Antarctic Support, Inc., B-406325, B-406325.2, B-406325.3, April 18, 2012
Posted on May 9, 2012 | No CommentsLink: GAO Decision Protestor: CH2M Hill Antarctic Support, Inc. Agency: National Science Foundation Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging the assignment of an evaluation rating for the protester’s technical proposal is denied where the rating was reasonable and consistent with the terms of... -
Estrategy, Inc., B-406466, B-406467, May 4, 2012
Posted on May 9, 2012 | No CommentsLink: GAO Decision Protestor: Estrategy, Inc. Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Denied in part and Dismissed in part. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency properly cancelled solicitation where the agency could not determine that any of the offerors’ proposed prices, which significantly exceeded the government... -
Innovative Technologies Corporation, B-401689; B-401689.2; B-401689.3, November 9, 2009
Posted on February 22, 2012 | No CommentsLink: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Justice Disposition: Protest denied. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Protest of alleged improprieties apparent on face of task order solicitation, filed after issuance of the task order, is dismissed as untimely under GAO’s Bid Protest Regulations. 2. Protest that the... -
Waterfront Technologies, Inc., B-403638.3, February 22, 2011
Posted on March 8, 2011 | No CommentsLink: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Labor Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Timeliness of Protest General Counsel P.C. Highlight: A protester may not passively await information providing a basis for protest. Rather, a protester has an affirmative obligation to diligently pursue such information and a protester’s failure to... -
Esterhill Boat Service Corp., U.S. Court of Federal Claims Case No. 09-735C, January 28, 2010
Posted on February 11, 2010 | No CommentsAgencies: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Dismissed Keywords: Terms of the solicitation; time for filing General Counsel, P.C. Highlight: Any challenge to the terms of a solicitation as being overly restrictive must be filed prior to the time for receipt of proposals. —————————————————————————————————————————– Esterhill Boat... -
Golight Inc., B-401866, September 10, 2009
Posted on September 10, 2009 | No CommentsLink: GAO Opinion Agency: Defense Logistics Agency Disposition: Protest dismissed. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest of award that was filed more than 10 calendar days after receipt during business hours of the agency’s email notification of award is untimely; for purposes of our timeliness rules, the... -
CES Industries, Inc., B-401427, September 1, 2009
Posted on September 1, 2009 | No CommentsLink: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest dismissed in part and denied in part. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Protest that agency improperly failed to make sole-source award to a service-disabled veteran-owned small business concern and impermissibly competed the acquisition on an unrestricted...
