Protests
GAO and Court of Federal Claims bid protest decisions, and what they mean for bidders.
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Protests
$641M CBP Waterborne Barrier Order to Cochrane USA Survives GAO Protest
GAO dismissed BCCG JV's challenge to CBP's sole-source, $641.3M task order to Cochrane USA for waterborne barriers along a 125-mile Rio Grande Valley segment, clearing the RGV-3 build to proceed.
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Severable Grounds Cost Accura Part of Its Protest Bill in $1.1M Army Corps QA Fight
GAO refused to reimburse Accura Engineering for its technical-evaluation arguments even after sustaining the firm's price challenge against an Army Corps quality-assurance award, ruling the losing grounds were 'readily severable' from the winning ones.
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NSF's $62.6M Communications BPA Survives FedWriters Protest as GAO Carves BPAs Out of FAR Overhaul Consolidation Rules
GAO dismissed FedWriters' protest of a $62.6M National Science Foundation communications BPA, ruling that the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul's tougher consolidation test does not reach blanket purchase agreements because the FAR definition of "contract" excludes BPAs.
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Protests
Army Goat Supply Award Holds as GAO Splits USDA License From Facility Capacity Test
GAO denied Indigo Ridge Farms’ protest of an Army live goat supply contract, ruling USDA licensing and facility capacity are distinct solicitation requirements. SOF Landing’s Class B license covering 200 animals satisfied the license criterion independently from its 500-animal facility documentation.
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Protests
STI Holds $31M MV-22 Maintenance Award After GAO Rejects AVMAC Challenge
GAO denied AVMAC LLC's protest of a $31,444,000.72 Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey maintenance contract awarded to Strategic Technology Institute under GSA ASTRO, finding challenges to AVMAC's own evaluation failed on the merits, AVMAC lacked standing to challenge STI's evaluation as the fourth-lowest priced offeror, and that limited corrective action...
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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
Minburn Technology Challenges Dell's $9.7B Pentagon Microsoft Contract at Court of Federal Claims, Alleging Undisclosed Mandatory Exclusivity and Awardee Ineligibility
Minburn Technology filed a protest at the Court of Federal Claims on June 11, 2026, challenging the Pentagon's $9.7 billion Core Enterprise Technology Agreement award to Dell Federal Systems, alleging DoD imposed mandatory exclusive ordering terms after award and that Dell's GSA schedule contract fails minimum eligibility criteria.
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Protests
GAO Denies Altus Technology Solutions Protest of $91M Air Force Training Range Award to VetPride-EMI, Ruling Price-Level Evaluation Was Lawful
GAO denied Altus Technology Solutions’ protest of a $91M Air Force training range contract awarded to VetPride-EMI Maintenance Solutions, rejecting all four grounds including program management evaluation, price scrutiny, best-value tradeoff, and SAM registration errors.
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Protests
GAO Denies Highlight Technologies Protest of GSA Enterprise Data Analytics Award to FedTec, Ruling $8.9M Value Judgment Over Technical Superiority Was Reasonable
GAO upheld GSA's award of an Enterprise Data Analytics Shared Services contract to FedTec LLC over technically superior Highlight Technologies, finding the $8.95M price gap justified the tradeoff and rejecting all four protest grounds including a Procurement Integrity Act allegation.
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GAO Denies South Dade SDVOSB Protest, Upholds GSA Best-Value Tradeoff on Reagan Building Facilities Contract
GAO denied South Dade Air Conditioning and Refrigeration's protest of GSA's award of a 10-year Reagan Building O&M contract to large business AAA Complete Building Services at $138.9M, despite South Dade's higher technical rating, upholding the 11.8% price-driven best-value tradeoff.
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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.
