Matter of AIS Engineering, Inc. Decided: January 19, 2022 Agency: Department of Defense Disposition: Protest Dismissed Keywords: Unacceptable Rating, Interested Party Protest Insight A protestor must challenge every subfactor the agency finds unacceptable, not merely those subfactors that a protest believes are most favorable. This case highlights the importance of having counsel knowledgeable about
Matter of Allosense, Inc. Decided: December 27, 2021 Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest Dismissed Keywords: Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program; Timeliness of Protest; Interested Party Protest Insight: This matter stresses the importance of being knowledgeable about the procedures involved in government contracts and ensuring bid protests comply with the Bid
Matter of Bluewater Management Group, LLC Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Dismissed Decided: September 2, 2020 Keywords: Interested Party General Counsel P.C. Highlight: A protester is not an interested party where it would not be in line for contract award if its protest were to be sustained. Summary of Facts Bluewater Management Group,
Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Denied Decided: November 7, 2019 Keywords: Interested Party General Counsel P.C. Highlight: A protest will be denied where the protester is not an interested party to challenge the procurement. Summary of Facts VetsTec, LLC protests the award of a contract to B3 Group, Inc., under RFP No. 36C10B19R0009,
Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest Dismissed Decided: August 11, 2017 Keywords: Interested Party General Counsel P.C. Highlight: In order to file or continue with a protest, the challenger must be an interested party, meaning, the protestor is an actual or prospective offeror whose “direct economic interest would be affected by the award
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Earth Resources Technology, Inc. Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that the agency unreasonably evaluated the protester’s proposal is denied where the evaluation was consistent with the terms of the solicitation and reasonably based. Agency reasonably assigned protester unknown confidence for past performance where it
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Technical Associates, Inc. Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied in Part, Dismissed in Part. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest Protest that an agency improperly restricted a procurement to Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) vendors is denied where agency reasonably determined that the solicited items could be procured through the FSS. Protester is
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: ITT Electronic Systems Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Unincorporated division of corporate parent that submitted proposal and filed protest is interested party to protest notwithstanding post-proposal-submission corporate restructuring whereby unincorporated division and assets committed to contract performance were transferred to new, stand-alone corporate entity. Protest
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: NikSoft Systems Corp. Agency: Department of Justice Disposition: Protest Sustained. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Digest: 1. Agency request that protest be dismissed on the basis that the protester is not an interested party due to an organizational conflict of interest (OCI) is denied, where the agency has not shown its OCI determination is based
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: CACI Dynamic Systems, Inc. Agency: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Disposition: Protest Denied in part, Dismissed in part. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging agency’s evaluation of the protester’s and awardee’s proposals under a technical approach factor is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation criterion. Protester