Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Weibel Equipment, Inc. Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging agency’s evaluation of awardee’s past performance and protester’s technical proposal is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was consistent with the terms of the solicitation and reasonable. Protest that agency failed to properly
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protests Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest alleging that contracting agency improperly and disparately evaluated proposals is denied where the record reflects that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation criteria, and that differences in the evaluation were
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest sustained. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Rejection of a bid as nonresponsive for failing to provide the price for one of many line items included in the bid schedule was improper, where the item for which the price was omitted is divisible from the solicitation’s overall
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Defense Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Risk; Changes clause; equitable adjustment General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Shifting greater risk to the contractor is not grounds for protest. “The increasing burden of risk in federal contracting” an article published in the Washington Business Journal by Lee Dougherty regarding this protest. —————————————————————————————————————————– GAO
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Defense Disposition: Protest sustained. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Protest is sustained where the agency credited the awardee with past performance of its parent and corporate affiliates, yet record did not establish which entities were involved with performing the prior contracts submitted by the awardee, nor did it establish the
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Disposition: Protest denied. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest is denied in procurement for commercial resupply services for International Space Station where source selection authority reasonably determined that outstanding and very good past performance of protester’s proposed subcontractors did not warrant an overall significant strength where protester itself
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protests denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest of agency evaluation of system maturity of offerors’ proposed joint light tactical vehicle configurations is denied; agency reasonably determined that awardees had previously constructed and tested demonstrators or prototypes that were sufficiently representative of proposed configurations such that risk awardees