Cordatis LLP represented Deloitte Consulting LLP (“Deloitte”). VSolvit, LLC, filed a post-award bid protest challenging the United States Department of Agriculture’s (“USDA”) decision to award a call order to Deloitte under a blanket purchase agreement for Agile Salesforce Portal Development and Support Services. The Court rejected VSolvit’s arguments that the technical evaluation was flawed, USDA […]
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Bid protest that awardee had disqualifying organizational conflicts of interest is denied where the agency waived the alleged conflicts and the waiver was consistent with the requirements of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR).
GAO protests challenging agency’s experience and technical evaluations are denied where protester has not demonstrated that the agency’s evaluation was unreasonable or inconsistent with the terms of the solicitation.
GAO protest arguing that the agency erred in declining to consider proposed subcontractors’ experience is dismissed as untimely where the protester did not file its protest with GAO within 10 days of receiving actual notice of adverse agency action on its de facto agency-level protest raised with the agency’s senior procurement executive.
Bid protest that award was tainted by organizational conflicts of interest is denied where the record does not support allegations that the awardee drafted specifications or had access to non-public information that would have provided a competitive advantage, and where the protester’s assertions do not present the hard facts necessary to refute the agency’s conclusion […]
Bid protest challenging the agency’s evaluation of a vendor’s quotation under a key personnel experience requirement is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was conducted in accordance with the terms of the solicitation and did not violate applicable procurement law or regulation.
Protest challenging past performance evaluation of protester’s quotation is denied where error did not competitively prejudice the protester, and the evaluation was otherwise reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation.
Bid protest challenging the agency’s evaluation under the technical and past performance factors is denied where the record reflects that the agency’s evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation.
On September 9, President Biden announced his Path Out of the Pandemic: COVID-19 Action Plan. One of the main goals of this science-based plan is to get more people vaccinated. As part of that plan, the President signed Executive Order 14042, Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors, (“the order”) which directs executive departments […]
Bid protest alleging that agency conducted unequal discussions during oral presentation portion of the procurement is denied where the exchanges between the agency and the vendors amounted to clarifications and where the awardee did not revise or modify its quotation.
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