Protests
GAO and Court of Federal Claims bid protest decisions, and what they mean for bidders.
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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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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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EPA's $67M START VII Superfund Contract Stays With Weston After Incumbent Tetra Tech Loses Key-Personnel Fight
GAO denied in part and dismissed in part incumbent Tetra Tech's protest of EPA's START VII Superfund award to Weston Solutions. One of eight environmental technicians missed the minimum qualifications, and approval under the old contract did not cure it, GAO held.
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DISA Takes Second Shot at Adding Combatant Commands to Leidos' $11.5B Enclave Contract
After GDIT's protest forced corrective action, DISA ran market research with 24 respondents and again concluded only Leidos can migrate the combatant commands to DoDNet by the Sept. 30, 2028 deadline, citing $15M in duplicative costs if the work were competed.
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Navy Gets to Redo $746M T-AGOS Ship Contract After GAO Rejects Patriot Protest
GAO denied Patriot Contract Services' protest of the Navy's corrective action on the $746M T-AGOS and T-AGM ship operations contract. The competition reopens, with final revised proposals and a possible new award decision.
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Court Freezes Army Corps' Kuwait Construction Contract Over Hidden Price Test
A Court of Federal Claims judge halted the Army Corps' Kuwait construction IDIQ after finding evaluators secretly ran a price-realism test the solicitation never disclosed, penalizing the protester's lower pricing.
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HHS's Migrant Children Legal-Aid Contract Survives GAO Protest as Access Gap Persists
GAO rejected Acacia Center for Justice's challenge to HHS's re-competed legal-services contract for unaccompanied migrant children, clearing the solicitation's invoice and scope terms. HHS had separately walked back a $150 million single-source award in August.
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$8 Billion Antarctic Support Contract Sent Back to NSF After GAO Protest Ruling
GAO found NSF improperly credited KBR with an affiliate's experience in the $8 billion Antarctic support contract award over rival bidder Battelle, ordering a new evaluation and source selection decision while rejecting six other protest grounds.
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CFTC's Bridge Lease at 3 Lafayette Centre Survives GAO Protest From Rival Landlord
GAO denied MEPT/FCP Patriots Plaza's protest of CFTC's sole-source bridge lease with Beacon Capital, rejecting a pretext claim as outside its jurisdiction and finding the protester lost standing after missing a capability-statement deadline.
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$64M Navy SeaPort NxG Task Order Survives GAO Protest Over Corrosion-Control Experience
GAO denied B&N Capital Suppliers' protest of a roughly $64 million Navy SeaPort NxG task order, ruling the Navy reasonably found B&N's proposal technically unacceptable for lacking Navy-specific shipboard corrosion-control and nonskid-coating experience the solicitation required.
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$299M Army Guard Training Order Stays With Valiant as GAO Backs a Tougher Second Read of CSA's Proposal
GAO denied CSA Global's protest of the Army's $299.2M Army National Guard MCTSP task order to incumbent Valiant. Evaluators found a new staffing risk in CSA's proposal during a corrective-action reevaluation, and GAO held a second read may differ from the first so long as it is reasonable. Decision released Sept. 17.
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Wrong Email Address Sinks Sensis's Secret Service Protest
GAO dismissed Sensis Inc.'s protest of a Secret Service ad-contract award as untimely after the company emailed its filing to the wrong address during a portal outage, rejecting its good-cause argument as filer error, not a GAO system failure.
