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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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