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
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest dismissed. Keywords: Interested party; set-aside; SDVOSB General Counsel P.C. Highlight: A protestor must be an interested party as defined in the Competition in Contracting Act of 1994 to successfully protest a contract award. In a set aside if the protestor is not qualified for the
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Defense Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Interested Party Status General Counsel P.C. Highlight: In order for a protest to be considered, a protester must be an interested party, that is, an actual or prospective offeror whose direct economic interest would be affected by the award or failure to award a contract.
Link: GAO Opinion Agencies: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest dismissed. Keywords: Interested party; firm fixed-price proposal —————————————————————————————————————————– Philips Healthcare Informatics (PHI) protested the award of a commercial item contract to AGFA HealthCare Corporation (AGFA) by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) under a request for proposals for picture archiving and communication system (PACS) services
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Disposition: Protest denied. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Protest that statement by agency during discussions–that price below representative current contract price may create performance risk–misled protester into not lowering its price in revised proposal is denied; statement did not prohibit offerors from proposing a price below specified
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest dismissed. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Designated Employee Agent is not an interested party to protest actions other than agency’s final selection of the source of performance with regard to a public-private competition conducted pursuant to Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 that was initiated