Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest denied. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: A bidder’s failure to precisely follow instructions in invitation for bids for construction project with respect to how to enter bid prices for deductive bid items can be corrected as an obvious clerical mistake where the intended bid is evident from
Link:GAO Opinion Agency: Defense Logistics Agency Disposition: Protest sustained. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency properly issued waiver in accordance with Federal AcquisitionRegulation § 12.302(c), for commercial item solicitation requirements that may be inconsistent with customary commercial practice, where agency reasonably found that requirements subject to waiver were legitimate agency needs. Solicitation is defective for failure to
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Defense Threat Reduction Agency Disposition: Protest denied. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency unreasonably discontinued negotiations under a Broad Agency Announcement is denied, where the agency reasonably determined, after four months of negotiations, that the parties could not reach agreement on contract terms concerning intellectual property rights. General Counsel P.C. Highlight:
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Defense Disposition: Protests denied. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging agency’s evaluation of protester’s past performance and technical proposal is denied where record shows that the evaluation was reasonable. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: IMC first challenges the evaluation of its past performance. In this regard, the RFP required offerors to
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Disposition: Protest denied. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging the agency’s cost realism evaluation of awardee’s proposal is denied where the agency’s workpapers demonstrate that the conclusions reached by the evaluators were reasonable. Protest challenging the evaluation of technical proposals is denied where the record establishes that the
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of State Disposition: Protest denied. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protester’s contention that the agency improperly refused to consider its proposal is denied where there is no evidence that the agency received the proposal by the solicitation due date or that improper government action caused the failure of the postal service to
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Energy Disposition: Protest denied. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency reasonably evaluated and rejected the protester’s quotation as technically unacceptable where the protester submitted an ambiguous quotation that failed to comply with a material specification requirement in the solicitation. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: 4D challenges the evaluation and rejection of its
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Homeland Security Disposition: Protest denied. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that successful vendor has an impermissible “biased ground rules” type of organizational conflict of interest is denied, where record shows that, contrary to protester’s assertion, former agency official working for successful vendor did not participate in planning the acquisition or