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GAO’s BID PROTEST – 2020 YEAR IN REVIEW

  • January 19, 2021
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GAO’s BID PROTEST  – 2020 YEAR IN REVIEW Every year by law, GAO releases an annual report on bid protests. While 2020 was an outlier in so many respects, this was not one of them with GAO releasing its bid protest annual report In late December.  The most notable item out of this report is that

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Agencies Must Provide an Accurate Estimate of Requirements in a Solicitation

  • May 29, 2014
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Bid Protest Weekly Newsletter by Bryan R. King, Attorney, General Counsel PC Date: Thursday, May 29, 2014, 9:45pm EST System Studies & Simulation, Inc., B-409375.2, B-409375.3, May 12, 2014 Deciding on the prices to offer in response to a solicitation for a federal government contract is not exactly an easy process. It requires a multitude

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Counting Independent Contractors As Employees Can Lead to Rejection of a Proposal

  • May 16, 2014
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Bid Protest Weekly Newsletter by Bryan R. King, Attorney, General Counsel PC Date: Wednesday, May 16, 2014, 11:22am EST MindPoint Group, LLC, B-409562, May 8, 2014 A common issue that faces many employers is the question of whether an individual working for them should be classified as an employee or an independent contractor. This issue typically arises

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Bad Idea to Assume Agency Will Know What Proposal Was Supposed to Say

  • May 6, 2014
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Bid Protest Weekly Newsletter by Bryan R. King, Attorney, General Counsel PC Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2014, 6:29pm EST Watts-Obayashi, Joint Venture; Black Construction Corp., B-409391, et al., April 4, 2014 There’s an old saying about what happens when you assume something, but this is a family article series, so I’ll let you Google that one on

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Government Contracting as a Team Sport: The Consideration of Subcontractor Experience

  • April 25, 2014
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Bid Protest Weekly Newsletter by Bryan R. King, Attorney, General Counsel PC Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2014, 5:41pm EST SumCo Eco-Contracting LLC, B-409434, B-409434.2, April 15, 2014 A company’s past experience often comes into play when an agency is going through the evaluation process in a procurement. In many cases, the procuring agency will evaluate a

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Wait…I Was Never Told I Had To Do That: When an Agency Uses Unstated Evaluation Criteria

  • April 18, 2014
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Bid Protest Weekly Newsletter by Bryan R. King, Attorney, General Counsel PC Date: Friday, April 18, 2014, 6:47pm EST McGoldrick Construction Services Corporation, B-409252.2, March 28, 2014 In theory, the government procurement process is relatively simple. A government agency determines it has a need for goods or services, and issues a solicitation to the public. The solicitation

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Bidding on “Alternate” Bid Item Not Always Required

  • April 11, 2014
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Bid Protest Weekly Newsletter by Bryan R. King, Attorney, General Counsel PC Date: Friday, April 11, 2014, 2:29pm EST Hamilton Pacific Chamberlain, LLC, B-409208.2, April 3, 2014 Several recent articles have discussed relatively minor issues that cost a contractor an opportunity for an award. We’ve seen an offeror fail to respond to a solicitation amendment, an

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When Almost Perfect Isn’t Good Enough: The Importance of a Complete Proposal

  • March 31, 2014
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Bid Protest Weekly Newsletter by Bryan R. King, Attorney, General Counsel PC Date: Monday, March 31, 2014, 7:00pm EST Business Integra, Inc., B-407273.22, February 27, 2014 There are a host of products where 99.9% effectiveness is perfectly acceptable to meet our needs. For example, someone worried about germs would probably consider a hand sanitizer claiming to be

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A Tale of Two Emails: The Importance of Following Up

  • March 21, 2014
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Bid Protest Weekly Newsletter by Bryan R. King, Attorney, General Counsel PC Date: Friday, March 21, 2014, 10:00am EST DJW Consulting, LLC, B-408846.3, December 18, 2013 In our last article, we discussed a case in which an offeror basically disqualified itself from further consideration for award after failing to respond to a discussion letter sent by the

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To Be or Not To Be an Offeror

  • March 17, 2014
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Bid Protest Weekly Newsletter by Bryan R. King, Attorney, General Counsel PC Date: Monday, March 17, 2014, 11:49am EST MOWA Barlovento, LLC-JV, B-408445, September 12, 2013 There is the old philosophical question: if a tree falls in the forest, but no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? There is no need for

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