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3/17/2025 5:20:43 PM Protest POV: Show Your Work! GAO Sides with Protestor Challenging Flawed Labor Rate and Price Risk Evaluation By Kendra Perkins Norwood Mitch Bailey Bradley Myrthil On March 4, 2025, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) sustained a protest challenging the Air Force’s determination that the...
12/5/2024 8:50:46 PM Protest POV: GAO Grounds $83M Air Force Contract Over Merger Mistake By Kendra Perkins Norwood Mitch Bailey Karla Perez Chacon In a recent decision, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) sustained a protest challenging the U.S. Air Force’s determination...
11/19/2024 5:38:22 PM Protest POV: How low can you go? GAO scrutinizes awardee’s low compensation rates By Kendra Perkins Norwood Mitch Bailey Karla Perez Chacon In a recent decision, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) sustained, in part, a protest challenging a task order award by the...
10/16/2024 7:40:27 PM Protest POV: Make it make sense—GAO sustains protest challenging solicitation with arbitrary and unduly restrictive evaluation scheme By Kendra Perkins Norwood Mitch Bailey Karla Perez Chacon In a recent decision, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) sustained, in part, a pre-award protest challenging the terms of a...
10/1/2024 4:43:34 PM Protest POV: The pot calling the kettle black—Court of Federal Claims calls out protester’s similar violation of font requirements By Kendra Perkins Norwood Karla Perez Chacon Mitch Bailey In a recent decision, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims denied a protest challenging the Central Intelligence Agency’s award of an...
9/9/2024 4:56:23 PM Protest POV: Out with the old, in with the new – GAO backs protest challenging Navy’s reliance on outdated market research By Kendra Perkins Norwood Mitch Bailey Karla Perez Chacon In a recent decision, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) sustained a protest challenging the Department of the Navy, Naval...
8/8/2024 2:31:06 PM Protest POV: Don’t let a case of “incumbentitis” kill your proposal (and protest) By Kendra Perkins Norwood Karla Perez Chacon In a recent decision, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) denied a protest challenging the award of a $115.8 million Central...
8/1/2024 5:03:00 PM Protest POV: A small business protégé’s lack of experience isn’t always a deal-breaker By Kendra Perkins Norwood Karla Perez Chacon In a recent decision, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims upheld the Department of Veterans Affairs’ award of a Service-Disabled...
6/12/2024 2:47:04 PM Protest POV: Document access controls can end up controlling your fate in competitions (and at GAO) By Kendra Perkins Norwood Karla Perez Chacon In a recent decision, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) denied a protest challenging the Army’s elimination of protester, SOS...
5/15/2024 6:07:23 PM Protest POV: GAO dismisses protest challenging contract award to low-priced offeror where solicitation did not contemplate evaluating price realism By Kendra Perkins Norwood Karla Perez Chacon In a recent bid protest decision, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) dismissed a protest filed by Quadrant Training Solutions, JV...
5/9/2024 7:30:45 PM Protest POV: Don’t let your bid protest fall flat on its face: CFC rejects untimely challenge to ambiguity apparent on the face of solicitation By Kendra Perkins Norwood Karla Perez Chacon In a recent protest decision, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (CFC) determined an alleged latent ambiguity was actually a patent...
4/26/2024 4:35:47 PM Protest POV: U.S. Court of Federal Claims declares “status is everything,” that is, small business status By Kendra Perkins Norwood Karla Perez Chacon The U.S. Court of Federal Claims (CFC) recently issued a decision holding the court lacked jurisdiction to consider protestor FYI- For...
4/12/2024 6:13:25 PM Protest POV: You Snooze, You Lose: One-Day Lapse in SAM Registration Can Cost Government Contract Award By Kendra Perkins Norwood Karla Perez Chacon A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) bid protest decision in TLS Joint Venture, LLC reminds companies competing for federal...