When a procuring agency accidentally hands one offeror its competitors’ pricing, the instinctive fix is to give everyone the same information. In Fluor Federal Solutions, LLC, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) held that this approach does not cure the problem, and that an agency cannot rely on an awardee’s own statements to conclude that
When an agency takes corrective action in response to a bid protest, it usually gets fairly broad deference on how to fix the problem. The Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) recent decision in FusionEdge Solutions, LLC, B-423829.2, et al. (Aug. 27, 2026) is a reminder that deference has limits — and that an agency cannot
If an agency used AI to evaluate your proposal, can you see that report? A recent Court of Federal Claims decision says yes, even if the agency claims it didn’t rely on it.
During an evaluation, the government used an AI platform to review offerors’ proposals and then argued that those AI findings did not
In Battelle Memorial Institute, B-424575, et al. (Sept. 10, 2026), the Government Accountability Office (GAO) sustained a protest challenging an agency’s decision to credit an awardee with the prior experience and past performance of its corporate affiliate. The decision is a useful reminder for both offerors and agencies about what it
For companies selling innovative technology to the federal government, a Commercial Solutions Opening (“CSO”) can provide a path to government business that looks quite different from a conventional FAR-based solicitation. CSOs are designed to give agencies—particularly the Department of Defense (“DoD”)—greater flexibility to acquire innovative commercial products, services, and capabilities while reducing some of the
A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, DOGE Wall of Receipts: More Transparency Needed on How Savings Are Derived from Contract, Grant, and Lease Terminations (GAO-26-108615, Aug. 2026), takes a hard look at the $110 billion in purported contract, grant, and lease “savings” that the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has publicized since
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued an important new decision addressing the rights of small businesses to compete through teaming arrangements for large, consolidated federal contracts. In Intelligence Consulting Enterprise Solutions, Inc., B-424433.3, et al. (Aug. 11, 2026), GAO sustained a protest challenging the Army’s prohibition on small business prime contractors forming
In Veros Real Estate Solutions, LLC, B-423965.2, et al., July 22, 2026, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) sustained a protest challenging the Department of Veterans Affairs’ evaluation of the awardee’s past performance. For contractors, the decision is less about an isolated agency mistake than about how past-performance relevance is proved and challenged.
A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) decision offers an important reminder that agencies cannot apply evaluation criteria that differ from the language of the solicitation. In Veterans Management Services, Inc., B-424182.2; B-424182.3 (June 22, 2026), GAO sustained a bid protest after finding that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) improperly limited its review of
The long-anticipated award decisions for the Solutions for Enterprise Wide Procurement VI, commonly known as NASA SEWP VI, represent one of the most significant procurement developments in the federal marketplace. With an estimated ceiling value approaching $60 billion and expected to serve as a major governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology products and services across