March 2024 Bid Protest Roundup: “Each Procurement Stands on Its Own”; Responsibility Determinations; Trade Agreement Act Compliance

In our bid protest roundup for March, we consider three recent decisions of the Government Accountability Office (GAO).  The first explains why similar proposals for similar requirements under similar evaluation criteria may legitimately receive very different ratings from one procurement to the next.  The second decision illustrates the risk an agency assumes when its corrective action ignores a protester’s plausible allegations and when the documented procurement record does not support the agency’s litigation position.  The final decision examines how a protester can be right about an awardee’s prospective noncompliance with requirements but still lose the protest.

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