Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Unitron LP Agency: Naval Air Systems Command Disposition: Protest Denied. _________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Sole-source award of a follow-on contract for highly specialized equipment is unobjectionable where the agency reasonably determined that award to any other source would likely cause unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency’s requirements. General Counsel PC Highlight: Unitron
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Asiel Enterprises, Inc. Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest Sustained. _________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging Air Force’s use of a Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentality (NAFI) to provide mission essential food services is sustained where the Air Force transferred the mission essential food service requirements to the NAFI on a noncompetitive
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Maersk Line, Limited Agency: Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration Disposition: Protest Denied. ______________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that solicitation for ship managers for Ready Reserve Force vessels unduly restricts competition by limiting competition to contractors qualifying as a specific category of United States citizen is denied where the requirement is mandated by
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Set-aside; Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA); invited contractor General Counsel P.C. Highlight: An agency must comply with the terms international agreements in its acquisition. ——————————————————————————————————————— GAO denied the protest of J&J Maintenance, Inc., (J&J) based on the terms of a request for proposals
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Federal Supply Schedule Contract; Competition General Counsel P.C. Highlight: FAR§ 8.405-6 exempts orders placed under the Federal Supply Schedule Contract program from the full and open competition requirements, but requires that an ordering activity justify its action when restricting consideration of schedule contractors to
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency properly excluded protester from competition where, although firm’s ineligibility may not have been clear from solicitation, agency had statutory authority to limit competition and executed determination and finding citing that authority, making it clear that it intended to limit competition