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Agency Arguing the Futile in Pre-Award Bid Protest

  • November 17, 2022
  • Ambiguity in SolicitationTerms of the Solicitation
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Matter of Selex ES, Inc. Decided: September 6, 2022 Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest Sustained Keywords: Ambiguity in Solicitation; Terms of the Solicitation   Protest Insight Pre-award protests challenging the ambiguity of requirements in a solicitation are critical to ensuring fair competition.  Even when underlying requirements are not in dispute, as was

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Matter of BAE Systems Norfolk Ship Repair, Inc.

  • January 4, 2022
  • Changes ClauseFixed Price ContractTerms of the Solicitation
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Matter of BAE Systems Norfolk Ship Repair, Inc. Decided: November 19, 2021 Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest Denied Keywords: Changes Clause; Fixed Price Contract; Terms of the Solicitation General Counsel, P.C. Protest Insight:  The key takeaway here is that the Government expects offerors to sufficiently cost unspecified work included in solicitations; either using

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In the Matter of: CR/ZWS LLC

  • November 3, 2017
  • Bid Protest DecisionsEvaluationsProposal EvaluationSolicitation RequirementsTerms of the Solicitation
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Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest Sustained Decided: September 13, 2017 Keywords: Evaluations, Proposal Evaluation, Solicitation Requirements, Terms of the Solicitation General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Compliance with all terms of the solicitation is absolutely critical to a successful proposal.  Failure to address the terms of the solicitation requirements may result in a technically

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Qwest Government Services, Inc. dba CenturyLink QGS, B-407835, March 7, 2013

  • April 3, 2013
  • Terms of the Solicitation

Link:         GAO Opinion Agency:    Department of the Interior Disposition:  Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Qwest Government Services, Inc. dba CenturyLink QGS, based on the terms of a request for proposals (RFP), issued by the Department of the Interior (DOI) for cloud hosting services. The RFP provided for the award

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Harmonia Holdings, LLC, B-407186.2; B-407186.3, March 5, 2013

  • March 20, 2013
  • Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI)Terms of the Solicitation

Link:         GAO Opinion Agency:    Social Security Administration Disposition:  Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denies the protest of Harmonia Holdings, LLC, a small business, based on the terms of a request for proposals (RFP), issued by the Social Security Administration (SSA), for geographic information system (GIS) services to support the SSA’s emergency preparedness mission.

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Strategic Resources, Inc., B-406841.2, November 27, 2012

  • December 12, 2012
  • Price RealismTechnical EvaluationTerms of the Solicitation

Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Strategic Resources, Inc. Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest alleging that the awardee’s proposal violated the solicitation’s unclear proposal font requirement is denied where the protester’s proposal does not comply with its own interpretation of the requirement. Protest challenging the agency’s evaluation of the offerors’

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Telecommunications Support Services, Inc., B-407305, December 4, 2012

  • December 12, 2012
  • Technical AcceptabilityTerms of the Solicitation

Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Telecommunications Support Services, Inc. Agency: Maryland Procurement Office Disposition: Protest Denied. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency reasonably determined that protester’s proposal was unacceptable where the protester failed to submit an adequately written technical proposal in accordance with the solicitation’s instructions. General Counsel PC Highlight: Telecommunications Support Services, Inc. (TSS) protested the award

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TestVonics, Inc., B-406700.3, December 4, 2012

  • December 12, 2012
  • Past PerformanceTerms of the Solicitation

Link: GAO Decision Protestor: TestVonics, Inc. Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency unreasonably and unfairly evaluated the past performance of the protester and awardee is denied where record shows that agency’s evaluation was reasonable, consistent with the terms of the solicitation, and not the result of

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Pinnacle Solutions, Inc., B-406998, B-406998.2, October 16, 2012

  • December 12, 2012
  • DiscussionsEvaluation CriteriaPast PerformanceTerms of the Solicitation

Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. Agency: Department of the Army, Army Material Command Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency held defective discussions is denied where agency did not hold discussions with either offeror, did not invite either offeror to revise its proposal, and limited the scope of its communications to

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Colt Defense, LLC, B-406696.2, November 16, 2012

  • December 5, 2012
  • Bid Protest JurisdictionTerms of the Solicitation

Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Colt Defense, LLC Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Dismissed. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: GAO will not resolve a dispute involving interpretation of a license agreement, even where the amount of the royalty fee under the agreement bears upon evaluation factors of the current solicitation, because this involves a matter of

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