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Protests
GAO Sustains Protest of DHS's $3B CWMS 3.0 Wireless Award to WidePoint
GAO sustained Turning Point Global Solutions' protest of DHS's $3 billion CWMS 3.0 award to incumbent WidePoint. The grounds remain under seal, and DHS has yet to say how it will respond.
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Protests
GAO Denies Servexo Protest Over USDA Security Contract at NBAF
The GAO on June 8, 2026 denied Servexo Protective Services' bid protest against the USDA's $25,519,755 award of a security guard contract at the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, finding the agency's price reasonableness determination and technical evaluation were reasonable.
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Protests
Court of Federal Claims Tosses CSI Aviation Protest of $915M ICE Deportation-Flight Award to Salus, Citing Lack of Standing
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims dismissed CSI Aviation's protest of a $915M ICE deportation-flight contract awarded to Salus Worldwide, holding CSI lacked standing because it never showed it could perform the work. The award stands despite a compressed, non-competitive procurement.
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Protests
GAO Sustains N&S Property Services Protest After ICE's Corrective-Action Reevaluation Again Picked a Higher-Priced Awardee
GAO sustained N&S Property Services' protest of ICE's 8(a) O&M award at Fort Benning after corrective action. The reevaluation applied unstated criteria, added undocumented 'raises confidence' findings for higher-priced KCorp, and tainted the best-value tradeoff, establishing prejudice.
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Protests
Protecting Protest Rights When a Procurement Scandal Is Unfolding: The Diligent Pursuit Obligation
A series of recent GAO decisions establishes that contractors who suspect procurement misconduct cannot preserve their protest rights by passively monitoring events — they must file within the standard timeliness window from the point they knew or should have known of the alleged violation.
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Protests
GAO's FY2024 Bid Protest Annual Report: Insights and Implications for Contractors
GAO's FY2024 Bid Protest Annual Report recorded a 13% sustain rate, with 2,878 cases filed and the Department of Defense remaining the most-protested agency. The report highlights common grounds for relief and trends contractors should track.
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Protests
GAO sustains DHS EAGLE II protest — agency failed to document OCI mitigation for awardee's consulting role
The Government Accountability Office has sustained a protest challenging a DHS EAGLE II task order award, finding the agency failed to conduct a meaningful organizational conflict of interest review after the awardee's consulting subsidiary had assisted in writing the task order's performance work statement.
