Department of Veterans Affairs
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Protests
VA Homeless-Veterans Solicitation Cancellation Survives Patriot First Protest, but Court Flags Amendment 0006
A Court of Federal Claims judge upheld the VA's cancellation of a $4 million New Jersey homeless-veterans services solicitation in Patriot First v. United States, but found the agency's reliance on Amendment 0006 arbitrary and warned against reusing it in the replacement solicitation.
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Protests
VA Ordered to Redo Past-Performance Review After Tossing Older CPARS Ratings
GAO sustained a protest finding the VA illegally excluded contractor-performance records older than three years from a $2.4M acquisition-support-services evaluation, despite RFQ language allowing reduced-weight consideration of older data.
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Protests
VA Must Redo $2.4M Acquisition Support Award After GAO Faults Past-Performance Cutoff
GAO sustained Veterans Management Services' protest of a VA Veterans Health Administration award, finding the agency wrongly treated discretionary solicitation language as a hard cutoff that excluded Exceptional-rated past-performance references from the tradeoff decision.
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Protests
Court of Federal Claims Tosses SDVOSB Bid Over Missing Signed Subcontracting Certificate
In Revelations Counseling & Consulting v. United States, the Court of Federal Claims upheld the VA's rejection of an SDVOSB proposal that paraphrased its compliance with the limitation on subcontracting but omitted the signed VAAR 852.219-75 certificate the solicitation demanded.
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Protests
Missing JV Certification Ends VA Caribbean Janitorial Protest; Counsel Draws AI-Citation Sanctions Warning
GAO denied OS-DB-JV-2's protest of a VA Caribbean Healthcare System janitorial contract after the SDVOSB joint venture omitted a required JV certification. The ruling also warned outside counsel about submitting four fabricated case citations that bore the hallmarks of AI generation — continuing a growing record of GAO decisions addressing unver...
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Protests
VA T4NG Task Order Holds After Price Realism Challenge Fails at GAO
GAO denied and dismissed DexteriTech's protest of a $21.9M VA T4NG task order awarded to Client First Technologies, ruling that fixed-price solicitations without an explicit price realism provision cannot be challenged on realism grounds, regardless of the price gap's size.
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Protests
GAO Dismisses Gilchrist Law Firm Bid Protest Over Abandoned Arguments
GAO dismissed The Gilchrist Law Firm's bid protest against the VA's rejection of its late FOIA services proposal, after the protester failed to address the agency's core timeliness argument and effectively abandoned its grounds for protest.
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Protests
Court of Federal Claims clears VA's $60.7B T4NG2 IT vehicle — Judge Silfen rules forfeiture defense controls
April 3, 2026 ruling allows VA's 10-year, $60.7B Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation 2 to proceed. 31 protests filed; Taurian, Technatomy, and Peregrine were added before the ruling.
