Protests
GAO and Court of Federal Claims bid protest decisions, and what they mean for bidders.
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Protests
Army's $50B MAPS Contract Faces Seven New GAO Protests Over Scorecard Deadline
Seven companies filed GAO protests against the Army's $50B MAPS solicitation, citing a compressed four-day scorecard deadline, FAR Overhaul conflicts, and small-business credit disputes, pushing the September award target into a mid-September to mid-October GAO decision window.
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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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Navy's Single-Award Pylon-Repair IDIQ Survives NORDAM's $19.2M Protest at GAO
GAO denied NORDAM's protest of a Navy IDIQ award to Vertex for SUU-79 pylon repair, rejecting a $19.2 million multi-award argument as untimely and finding the Navy's discussions and small-business verification were sound.
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$699M Army Corps Fuel-Facilities MATOC Stays Intact After GAO Protest
GAO denies GSINA-Pacific's protest of its phase-one elimination from the Army Corps' $699M, seven-year POL facilities construction MATOC, finding the past-performance evaluation reasonable and no competitive prejudice.
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Labor Department Sticks With $550K WINTrio Pick Over "Outstanding"-Rated Rival
GAO upheld DOL's award of a cybersecurity assessment task order to WINTrio at $550,276, rejecting Stondoh's protest despite its "Outstanding" rating and $979,800 bid.
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$865M AFCENT Communications Contract Draws Third GDIT Protest at GAO
GDIT filed a new GAO protest July 6 against the $865M AFCENT CTSS-V communications IDIQ awarded to GovCIO, the third challenge in a fight stretching back to the February 2024 award.
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IRS Keeps Nutanix-Specific Cloud RFQ After FCN's Reconsideration Bid Fails at GAO
GAO denied FCN Inc.'s request to reconsider its dismissed protest of an IRS RFQ built around a Nutanix-specific bill of materials, ruling FCN never raised its ambiguity argument until after the initial protest was filed.
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$60B SEWP VI Clears Its Final Protest as a Missing Attestation Form Sinks a Bidder
NASA finalized its path to award on the roughly $60 billion SEWP VI IT contract after GAO denied Strategic Alliance Business Group on July 2, 2026, the last of 12 protests. The firm lost for omitting a required supply-chain attestation form, and GAO found NASA had no duty to seek a clarification.
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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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SPF Email Glitch Sinks Rick Aviation's DLA Fuel Bid as Court of Federal Claims Enforces 'Late Is Late'
The Court of Federal Claims dismissed Rick Aviation's protest of a DLA petroleum-fuel award after a DISA firewall quarantined its emailed proposal over an SPF misconfiguration. An automated delivery reply is not agency receipt, the court held, and the government-control exception did not apply.
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USTRANSCOM Functional Management Support Award to Trillion Technology Survives InterImage Protest
GAO denied InterImage's challenge to a USTRANSCOM functional management support task order awarded to Trillion Technology Solutions, ruling the agency's technical evaluation and best-value tradeoff were reasonable and consistent with the solicitation.
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$5.2M USTRANSCOM JOPES Support Task Order Stays With Trillion After Lower Bid Survives Protest
GAO rejected InterImage's challenge to a USTRANSCOM task order for JOPES and Transportation Visualizer support, upholding the award to Trillion Technology Solutions whose $5.17M quote came in roughly 18% below InterImage's $6.3M price.
