Protests
GAO and Court of Federal Claims bid protest decisions, and what they mean for bidders.
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Protests
Blind-Vendor Priority Upheld in Tyndall Mess Protest
GAO denied J Caye Premier Dining's protest of an Air Force resolicitation for mess attendant work at Tyndall AFB, ruling the duties are integral to operating the mess facility and trigger Randolph-Sheppard Act priority for blind vendors.
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Protests
OCI Waiver Sinks Goldbelt Protest of $36.5M Bureau of Indian Education IT Award to CyberStar
GAO left CyberStar's $36.5M Bureau of Indian Education IT task order intact, denying Goldbelt Nighthawk's evaluation challenges and dismissing its conflict-of-interest claim because the Bureau of Indian Affairs had already signed a FAR 9.503 OCI waiver.
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GDIT Protests DISA's $11B Sole-Source Award to Leidos
GDIT filed a GAO bid protest on July 10, 2026 challenging DISA's decision to expand the ~$11 billion Defense Enclave Services contract to Leidos without competition, covering combatant-command IT migration to DoDNet. A decision is due by October 19, 2026.
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Protests
Federal Circuit: Blue & Gold Clock Ends at Bid Deadline
The Federal Circuit held in Utech v. United States that Blue & Gold waiver runs from the proposal deadline, not award - killing a challenge to VA's endoscopy system contract and aligning COFC timeliness practice with GAO.
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Concept Plus Keeps $52M Air Force REMIS Task Order
GAO denied and dismissed two companion protests from Salience Technologies and Absolute Strategic Technologies challenging a ~$52.2M Air Force REMIS task order to Concept Plus, finding Salience lacked standing and the fixed-price solicitation required no price-realism analysis.
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Air Force's Affiliate Past-Performance Clause Survives Tyonek Protest — but GAO Dodges the DFARS 865 Fight
GAO dismissed Tyonek Technical Innovations' pre-award protest of an Air Force 8(a) cyber-training solicitation on timeliness and prematurity grounds, leaving open whether the RFP's affiliate past-performance condition conflicts with the new Section 865 DFARS mandate.
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Protests
Untimely Protest Sinks Tyonek's Air Force Cyber RFP Bid
GAO dismissed Alaska Native firm Tyonek Technical Innovations' protest of an Air Force 8(a) cyber-training RFP, ruling its challenge to the solicitation's affiliate past-performance clause untimely and its evaluation objection premature — a textbook lesson in protest deadlines.
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Protests
GAO: Cylinders Aren't the Product, Hudson Loses DLA Gas Bid
GAO denied Hudson Technologies' protest of DLA's HFC gas award to RGAS, ruling the end product is the gas, not the cylinders — so Hudson's claim that RGAS sourced cylinders from Thailand gave DLA no notice of a false Buy American certification. A past-performance challenge over SPRS also failed.
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Court Vacates $28M Webbers Falls Gate Award to McMillen
The Court of Federal Claims vacated the Army Corps of Engineers' roughly $28 million Webbers Falls gate award to McMillen and enjoined performance, finding the Tulsa District never explained why it rated two substantively indistinguishable proposals differently.
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Protests
Court Claims Jurisdiction Over DLA Source Approval Denials
The Court of Federal Claims held that a design activity's denial of a Source Approval Request falls within its bid-protest jurisdiction — then denied runflat lubricant supplier The Toota Group relief on every merits count against DLA and TACOM.
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Protests
Bureau of Prisons Can Price Maryland Prison Health Care Off a Rural West Virginia Medicare Rate
GAO denied incumbent American Correctional Healthcare's challenge to a Bureau of Prisons solicitation that pegs pricing for medical services at FCI Cumberland, Maryland, to Medicare rates for rural West Virginia. The benchmark is comparative only, GAO held, and every offeror faces it equally.
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Protests
$304M DLA Shipping Container IDIQ Stays Unrestricted After GAO Rejects Set-Aside Challenge
GAO denied Sea Box's protest of DLA's $304M shipping container IDIQ, ruling 19-month-old market research remained valid and that future capacity expansion plans don't count toward small business set-aside eligibility.
