Link: GAO Opinion Agency: National Aeuronautics and Space Administration Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Womack Machine Supply Co., regarding the terms of a request for quotations (RFQ) issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for hydraulic servo control manifolds. NASA posted to its website its intent
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Impact Resource Technologies Agency: United States Marine Corps Disposition: Protest Denied _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest of agency’s time extension for the receipt of quotations following a solicitation amendment is denied where the protester has not shown the extension to be unreasonable. General Counsel PC Highlight: Impact Resource Technologies (IR Tech) protested
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Naval Systems, Inc. Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging agency’s proposed corrective action in response to an earlier protest is denied where the record shows that the agency’s corrective action– revising the solicitation, obtaining revised proposals and making a new source selection decision–is necessary
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Infoshred LLC Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Sustained. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest is sustained where agency rejected awardee’s quote for failure to acknowledge an amendment that was immaterial and did not impose any legal obligations on the contractor in addition to those to which it had already agreed. General
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Crewzers Fire Crew Transport, Inc. Agency: Department of Agriculture Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: GAO has jurisdiction to decide a protest of an agency’s modification of the price evaluation formula stated in blanket purchase agreements (BPA) where the price evaluation scheme for the BPAs forms the basis for the placement
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: OMNIPLEX World Services Corporation Agency: Office of Personnel Management Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency’s notification to all offerors of a common cutoff date for receipt of proposals has the intent and effect of a request for final revised proposals where all offerors submitted revisions and no offerors were prejudiced.
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Triad Logistics Services Corporation Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protester did not establish prejudice associated with agency’s failure to amend solicitation to account for 2-month reduction in base period of performance General Counsel PC Highlight: Triad Logistics Services Corporation protested the award to Shilo
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Jones Lang LaSalle Americas, Inc. Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest objecting to proposed corrective action taken in response to earlier protest is denied where agency reasonably determined that the proposals received in earlier acquisition indicated that there were two reasonable interpretations to an amendment
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: C2G Ltd. Company Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that an agency failed to provide equal information to offerors is denied where the initial solicitation was posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website, where the solicitation advised that amendments to the solicitation (including the agency’s
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Integrity Consulting Engineering and Security Solutions, LLC Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest Denied. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Digest: Protest alleging that the agency’s solicitation amendment, issued as part of corrective action in response to a protest by another firm, improperly disclosed proprietary staffing level information included in the protester’s proposal is denied
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Alliant Techsystems, Inc. Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GOA Digest: Protest arguing that agency has improperly precluded price revisions is denied where the underlying basis for the allegation–the protester’s interpretation of the solicitation’s amendments issued in connection with corrective action–is unreasonable. Additional round of discussions, conducted as
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Solicitation amendment; Corrective action; Disclosure of price General Counsel P.C. Highlight: When taking corrective action in response to a protest, reopening the competition and requesting revised proposals is not improper merely because the awardee’s price has been released in the initial award