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General Counsel, P.C.'s Government Contracts Practice Group is pleased to provide you with the Bid Protest Weekly. Researched, written and distributed by the attorneys of General Counsel, P.C., the Bid Protest Weekly
allows the Government Contract community to stay on top of the latest
developments involving bid protests by providing weekly summaries of
recent bid protest decisions, highlighting key areas of law, agencies,
and analyses of the protest process in general. |
General Counsel, P.C.’s Government Contracts Group
has over fifty years of combined government contract law experience
(both as in-house and outside legal counsel), helping clients solve
their government contract problems relating to the award or performance
of a federal government contract, including bid protests, contract
claims, small business concerns, and teaming and subcontractor
relations. |
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1. John P. Santry-Designated Employee Agent, B-402827, August 2, 2010 | |
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GAO Opinion |
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Department of the Air Force |
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Disposition: |
Protest denied. |
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Keywords: |
A-76 Protest |
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General Counsel P.C. Highlight: No
function of the Department of Defense performed by Department of
Defense civilian employees may be converted, in whole or in part, to
performance by a contractor unless the conversion is based on the
results of a public-private competition. |
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John P. SantryundefinedDesignated Employee Agent and
representative of federal workers who could be displaced by the award of
a proposed contracting action, protests the Department of the Air
Force’s (Air Force) issuance of request for quotations (RFQ), which
sought submission of quotations from private-sector food service
contractors to provide various food service activities at specified Air
Force bases. READ MORE | | |
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2. Greystones Consulting Group, Inc., B-402835, June 28, 2010 |
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GAO Opinion |
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Agencies: |
Department of Homeland Security |
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Disposition: |
Protest denied. |
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Keywords: |
Size Protetst; corrective action |
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General Counsel P.C. Highlight: It
is inconsistent with the integrity of the procurement system and the
intent of the SBA for an agency to allow a firm to continue performing a
contract where the firm was determined by the SBA after the award to be
other than small, unless there are countervailing reasons for allowing
the award to remain in place. |
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Greystones Consulting Group, LLC (Greystones)
protests the award of a contract under a request for proposals (RFP),
issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for roleplayer
services. READ MORE | | |
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3. Eisenhower Real Estate Holdings, LLC, B-402807, July 27, 2010 | |
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Link: |
GAO Opinion |
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Agencies: |
General Services Administration |
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Disposition: |
Protest denied. |
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Keywords: |
Challenge to the terms of a solicitation |
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General Counsel P.C. Highlight: In
preparing a solicitation, a contracting agency is required to specify
its needs in a manner designed to achieve full and open competition and
may include restrictive requirements only to the extent they are
necessary to satisfy the agency’s legitimate needs. |
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General Services Administration (GSA) issued a
solicitation for offers (SFO) for the lease of office space to house
portions of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The SFO requires
that the housing be located in Washington, DC, or if in Virginia or
Maryland, within a certain proximity of the main DHS campus under
development. READ MORE | |
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TrailBlazer Health Enterprises, LLC, B-402751; B-402751.2, July 20, 2010 |
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GAO Opinion |
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Agencies: |
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services |
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Disposition: |
Protest denied |
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Keywords: |
Final Evaluation |
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General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Where
a protest challenges an agency’s evaluation, it will review the
evaluation record to determine whether the agency’s judgments were
reasonably and consistent with the stated evaluation criteria and
applicable procurement statutes and regulations. |
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TrailBlazer Health Enterprises, LLC (TrailBlazer)
protests the award of a contract under a request for proposals (RFP)
issued by the Department of Health and Human Service (HHS), Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), for administration services under
Section 1011 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and
Modernization Act of 2003, which requires CMS to pay hospitals and other
healthcare providers for costs associated with furnishing emergency
healthcare services to undocumented or other specified aliens. READ MORE | | |
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5. JLT Group, Inc., B-402603.2, June 30, 2010 | |
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Link: |
GAO Opinion |
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Agencies: |
General Services Administration |
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Disposition: |
Protest denied |
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Keywords: |
Protest of terms of the solicitation |
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General Counsel P.C. Highlight: In
preparing a solicitation, a contracting agency is required to specify
its needs in a manner designed to achieve full and open competition, and
may include restrictive requirements only to the extent they are
necessary to satisfy its legitimate needs. READ MORE | |
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