GAO and Court of Federal Claims bid protest decisions, and what they mean for bidders.
GAO found DHS had no documented basis for excluding FusionEdge Solutions from a third task-order award on USCIS's $425M+ RIVER IT recompete, ordering the agency to redo the call and awarding FusionEdge its protest costs.
Read the story →GAO sustained Ares Enterprise's protest, finding a Los Angeles Air Force Base IT task order under the $5.7B EITaaS BPA far exceeded the contract's actual scope, and ordered the Space Force to terminate Vision's order and recompete the work.
GAO recommended the Interior Department reimburse Viderity Inc.'s attorneys' fees, finding Interior's probe into an evaluator's undisclosed conflict of interest with Bixal Solutions was unreasonable and its corrective action unduly delayed, per a Sept. 1, 2026 decision.
GAO denied MirrorWeb's protest of the Library of Congress's web-harvesting award to Internet Archive, rejecting a 558-percent price challenge after MirrorWeb's technical proposal was found unacceptable over a failed crawl test.
GAO ruled Interior must reimburse Viderity Inc.'s protest costs after finding the agency's HHS-linked conflict-of-interest probe was unreasonable — it never asked awardee Bixal about the evaluator's paid consulting ties.
GAO sustained DAS Federal's protest of a $52.3M CMS task order awarded to Precise Federal, finding CMS applied unstated evaluation criteria and never reconciled contradictory scoring of DAS's proposal. CMS must reevaluate and redo its award decision.
GAO denied C.H. Guernsey's protest of a $10.3M DLA task order awarded to ScottMadden for Alaska utilities privatization support, ruling the agency reasonably favored the lower price over Guernsey's stronger past-performance rating.
GAO sustained DAS Federal's protest of a $52M CMS IT support award, finding the agency penalized the lower-priced bidder for following solicitation instructions and that its own evaluation record contradicted its no-benefit conclusion. CMS must redo the evaluation and cover DAS Federal's protest costs.
GAO upholds VA authority to require SDVOSB status at contract award, not just proposal submission, after a joint venture lost its veteran-owned eligibility mid-procurement following a partner buyout.
GAO denied Oready LLC's protest of a BIE speech-therapy solicitation, backing the agency's requirement for signed individual commitment letters after past staffing no-shows under employer-only certifications.
GAO denied Potomac Valor Healthcare-2's protest of its elimination from a VA outpatient clinic procurement, ruling the joint venture lost its SDVOSB status when its managing member, Potomac Healthcare Solutions, was acquired by joint-venture partner Valor Healthcare, leaving the VA's award to Primary Care Solutions intact.
GAO sustained ICES's protest of the Army's $50B MAPS solicitation, ruling the Army illegally barred small businesses from teaming as subcontractors instead of forming joint ventures, and ordered the solicitation reopened.
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