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., under a request for quotations (RFQ), for support services for
Link: 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) and FAR § 35.016 does not fall within the exception
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: McKissack–URS Partners, JV Agency: Department of Labor Disposition: Protest Dismissed. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: A debriefing provided pursuant to an architect-engineer procurement conducted under the Brooks Act, 40 U.S.C. §§ 1102-1104 (2006), does not fall within the exception to our general timeliness rules at 4 C.F.R. § 21.2(a)(2) (2010), because such a
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Military Sealift Command Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Best value; Proposal Detail; Debriefing General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Offerors bear the burden of submitting adequately written proposals. With some exceptions not applicable here, contracting agencies are not obligated to go in search of information that offerors have omitted, placed in other parts of
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protest dismissed in part, denied in part. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Post-award protest challenging agency’s elimination of proposal for region-wide consortium approach that was filed more than 3 months after protester received notice of the proposal’s elimination is not timely where protester received all