Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Information Ventures, Inc., regarding the award of a contract to AlphaTRAC Inc., under a request for quotations (RFQ), issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Institutes for Health, National
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: General Services Administration Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems, Inc., regarding the issuance of a task order to L-3 Services, Inc., under a task order request (TOR) issued by the General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Systems Integration and Management Center, to
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of BCPeabody Construction Services, Inc. based on the award of a contract to Edens Construction Company, by the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, under a request for proposals (RFP) for dike rehabilitation construction services.
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Homeland Security Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of PAE Government Services, Inc., based on the award of a contract to Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc. (KBR), under a request for proposals (RFP), issued by the Department of the Navy for base operating
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Competitive Range; Prejudice General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Smith Enterprise, Inc. regarding the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under a request for proposals (RFP), issued by the Department of the Navy for research and development services
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Commerce Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denies the protest of Systalex Corporation, based on the Department of Commerce, United States Census Bureau’s issuance of a task order to Prime Source Technologies, LLC, under a request for proposals (RFP) for the support of financial and administrative services.
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Rust Consulting, Inc. Agency: Department of Justice Disposition: Protest Denied. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest against price realism evaluation of awardees’ proposals is denied where the agency determined that the awardees’ lower proposed labor hours reflected their technical approaches and were not so low as to present a performance risk, and where
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Triad Logistics Services Corporation Agency: Government Accountability Office Disposition: Request for Reconsideration Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Decision denying protest is affirmed on reconsideration where protester fails to demonstrate that decision erred in requiring protester to demonstrate prejudice. General Counsel PC Highlight: Triad Logistics Services Corporation requested that the GAO reconsider its
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Defense Logistics Agency Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Prejudice; Domestic Production Requirement; Reliance on the Proposal —————————————————————————————————————————– GAO Digest: 1. Protest that a delivery order was issued to a vendor that would not provide a domestic end item is denied where the agency reasonably relied upon the vendor’s certification that it would
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Housing and Urban Development Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Prejudice; corrective action; sole-source General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO will not consider an argument regarding compliance with a corrective action letter, except to the extent the protester asserts that an agency’s alleged deviation from its proposed corrective action resulted in a prejudicial
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Procurement Integrity; Prejudice General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Proof of actual prejudice is an essential part of any viable protest. Without a showing of actual prejudice, the protest will be dismissed. —————————————————————————————————————————– East West, Inc. (East West) protests the award of a contract,
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Prejudice General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Prejudice is an essential element of every viable protest and it will not sustain a protest unless the protester can demonstrate a reasonable possibility that it was prejudiced by the agency’s actions; in effect, a protester must show that,
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Veteran Affairs Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Prejudice General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO will not sustain a protest unless the protester demonstrates a reasonable possibility that it was prejudiced by the agency’s actions —————————————————————————————————————————– Gonzales-McCaulley Investment Group, Inc. (GMIG) protests the issuance of an order to NPI, Inc. (NPI) under a
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Defense Disposition: Protest denied. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that disclosure of protester’s initial proposed total price resulted in an unfair competition is denied where record does not demonstrate that protester was competitively harmed. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Health Net argues that the integrity of the procurement process has been
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protests denied. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency’s evaluation unreasonably ignored awardee’s poor past performance record under predecessor contract is denied where positive evaluation of awardee’s past performance record was supported by underlying contract performance assessments and by agency’s explanation of alleged negative information and of
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Protest challenging agency’s cost realism analysis is denied where the agency reasonably adjusted the protester’s proposed costs to account for its failure to propose the correct number of labor hours, as required by the solicitation. 2. Protest challenging agency’s technical
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Homeland Security Disposition: Protest denied. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest alleging that agency deviated from solicitation’s stated evaluation scheme in evaluating price proposals is denied where protester failed to show that it was competitively prejudiced by any alleged deviations. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: ALJUCAR in essence, raises three arguments about
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Defense Threat Reduction Agency Disposition: Protest denied. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that the agency improperly determined that the protester’s cost proposal lacked realism is denied where the record shows that the protester was not prejudiced by the agency’s determination, because the agency in fact considered the protester’s proposal for award and