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'No Prejudice' Response to Protest of Past Performance Evaluation Tantamount to Concession of Error

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 07.31.14

In a recent decision, GAO sustained Native Resource Dev. Co.'s protest that its past performance should have been rated Outstanding given the undisputed record of the agency's superlative written findings. GAO held that the agency's response, which was solely that if the protester's past performance merited a higher rating, then so did the awardee's, was "tantamount to a concession" that it could not defend its assignment of a Satisfactory rating and dismissed the agency's findings about the essential equivalency of protester's and awardee's past performance as merely a post hoc argument to be given little weight.


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Client Alert | 8 min read | 07.16.25

The New EU “Pharma Package”: The transferable exclusivity voucher—A comparison of Commission/Parliament/Council positions

In our first alert in this weekly series on the EU Pharma Package we provided some important background and general information about the status of the Pharma Package and how the trilogues work, and in the second alert we discussed the proposed changes to regulatory data protection....