Matter of Orlans PC Decided: October 25, 2022 Agency: Department of Agriculture Disposition: Protest Sustained Keywords: Customary Commercial Practice; Commercial Item Acquisition Protest Insight This case is an example of a protester successfully challenging the terms of a solicitation before the submission of proposals was complete. Here, the protester argued that the solicitation terms were
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Verizon Wireless Agency: General Services Administration Disposition: Protest Sustained. ________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging the terms of a solicitation is timely where the solicitation expressly permitted offerors to take exception to its terms, the agency did not advise the protester that it could not take exception to certain terms until after
Link:GAO Opinion Agency: Defense Logistics Agency Disposition: Protest sustained. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency properly issued waiver in accordance with Federal AcquisitionRegulation § 12.302(c), for commercial item solicitation requirements that may be inconsistent with customary commercial practice, where agency reasonably found that requirements subject to waiver were legitimate agency needs. Solicitation is defective for failure to