Link: GAO Opinion Agencies: U.S. Army Material Command Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Meaningful discussion General Counsel, P.C. Highlight: Discussions, in the context of a FAR Part 15 Negotiated Procurement must be shown to be meaningful. That is, they may not be misleading and must identify potential deficiencies or weaknesses in the proposals that could be
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: United States Marine Corps Disposition: Protest sustained. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Protest that agency misevaluated awardee’s proposal is sustained where record shows that, while solicitation provided that agency would conduct extensive testing on submitted product samples, it failed to conduct testing on awardee’s product, as revised following discussions, and instead accepted
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Disposition: Protest denied. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Protest challenging the evaluation of technical proposals is denied where the record established that the agency’s evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the evaluation criteria. 2. Protest that agency failed to hold meaningful discussions with the protester is denied where
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protests denied. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Decision: Protest asserting that agency improperly failed to reconcile disparity between awardee’s technical proposal staffing and staffing level used in the cost evaluation, with agency assuming lower staffing for awardee in cost evaluation than level proposed in awardee’s technical proposal, resulting
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Disposition: Protest sustained in part, denied in part. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Post-closing time protest that awardee has an impermissible organizational conflict of interest (OCI) is untimely where (1) solicitation was issued on an unrestricted basis, (2) protester was aware of the underlying facts giving rise to