Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of B&B Medical Services, Inc. regarding the award of a contract to Rotech Healthcare, Inc., under a request for proposals (RFP), issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for home oxygen services. The RFP contemplated
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Small Business Administration Disposition: Protests denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protests of Colonial Press International, Inc., a small business, based on the award of two contracts by the Government Printing Office (GPO). The first contract was awarded to Fry Communications, Inc. under an invitation for bids (IFB) for
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denies the protest of USS Chartering, LLC, where it protests the award of a contract to Crowley Petroleum Services, Inc., under a request for proposals (RFP), issued by the Department of the Navy, Military Sealift Command, for ship charter
Link: GAO Protest Protestor: TMG Construction Corporation Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest arguing that solicitation requirement for top secret facility site clearance at time of award and requirement that contractor be capable of providing “safeguarding” (i.e., classified storage) capability at top secret level should be read together to
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Patriot Construction, Inc. Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency improperly awarded construction contract to firm whose state contractor’s license had been suspended is denied because possession of state license is a matter of responsibility, and therefore awardee was properly allowed to rectify its
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: EOD Technology, Inc. Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Dismissed. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ General Counsel PC Highlight: EOD Technology, Inc. protested the corrective action taken by the agency under an RFP for security services in Afghanistan. The RFP provided for award to the lowest-priced, technically acceptable offeror. In its written debriefing following
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Estrategy, Inc. Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest of an agency’s award of a contract is denied where the agency reasonably found that the awardee complied with the solicitation’s licensing requirements. General Counsel PC: Estrategy, Inc. protested the award to NEIE of a contract for
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: EcoAnalysts, Inc. Agency: Environmental Protection Agency Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Where protester’s proposal, on its face, indicated that it would not comply with subcontracting limitation included in the solicitation, which required that at least 50 percent of the cost of contract performance incurred for personnel be expended for employees
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Orion Technology, Inc. Agency: Small Business Administration Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Contracting officer reasonably declined to revisit protester’s non-responsibility following the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) refusal to issue a certificate of competency (COC) where the only new information consisted of a single unsolicited e-mail from protester’s proposed subcontractor providing
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest denied. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Where record shows that contracting agency reasonably determined small business protester’s proposal technically unacceptable on the basis of factors not related to responsibility, referral to Small Business Administration for Certificate of Competency review was not required, even though agency also found
Link: GAO Decision Protestor:Kilgore Flares Company, LLC Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency properly found protester nonresponsible to perform contract for the manufacture of flares where the record reflects outstanding concerns relating to the safety of the firm’s manufacturing facility. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Kilgore Flares Company, LLC protested
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of State Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Responsibility Determination General Counsel P.C. Highlight: in making a negative responsibility determination, a contracting officer is vested with a wide degree of discretion and, of necessity, must rely upon his or her business judgment in exercising that discretion. —————————————————————————————————————————– Torres International, LLC (TI JV), protests
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Government Printing Office Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Responsibility Determination General Counsel P.C. Highlight: With regard to determinations of nonresponsibility, GAO generally will not question a negative determination of responsibility unless the protester can demonstrate bad faith on the part of the agency or a lack of any reasonable basis for the determination.
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Responsibility General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO will not question a negative responsibility determination unless the protester can demonstrate bad faith on the part of the agency or a lack of any reasonable basis for the determination. —————————————————————————————————————————– Bilfinger Berger AG Sede Secondaria Italiana
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of State Disposition: Protest denied. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Protest that clarification requests issued by agency in fact constituted discussions, such that agency was required to conduct discussions with protester, is denied; even if clarifications did constitute discussions, agency was not required to conduct discussions with protester, since its proposal