No Tolerance For Not Meeting Storage Requirements
Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 05.03.10
After a lengthy back-and-forth at GAO, the protestor finds relief at the Court of Federal Claims with the award to its competitor for storage space being set aside. The court found in Metro. Van and Storage, Inc. v. U.S. (Apr. 16, 2010) that the awardee did not meet the technical requirements of the RFP that it have a minimum of storage space under firm commitment and refused to brush off these problems as contract administration issues.
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Client Alert | 4 min read | 10.30.26
Recent sustain decisions by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) in Fluor Federal Solutions, LLC and Reliance Test & Technology send a clear message: when an agency tries to fix a Procurement Integrity Act (PIA) violation by committing a second one, the cure can be just as fatal as the disease. The cases involved the U.S. Air Force’s $1.8 billion procurement for O&M services at Elgin Air Force Base. During discussions, the Air Force inadvertently released a pricing overview slide with all offerors’ bottom-line evaluated costs to Reliance Test & Technology, which immediately notified the agency of the error. In response, the Air Force decided to level the playing field by providing the same information to all the other offerors in the procurement, stating, “[o]fferors may consider this disclosure in their [final proposal revision].”
Client Alert | 3 min read | 10.29.26
What University Licensors Should Learn From TexasLDPC v. Broadcom
Client Alert | 2 min read | 10.28.26
Debriefing to Dead Briefing: How to Avoid Dismissal by Identifying “Required” Debriefings
