by Garry Grossman, Principal, McCarthy, Sweeney & Harkaway, PC | Apr 10, 2013 | Offers/Protests
Nexant, Inc. (“Nexant”) protested to the GAO the award of a US Agency for International Development (“USAID”) contract to Deloitte Consulting, LLP, on the grounds that USAID (1) failed to conduct meaningful discussions, (2) applied an...
by Garry Grossman, Principal, McCarthy, Sweeney & Harkaway, PC | Feb 5, 2013 | Offers/Protests
If an agency lacks jurisdiction to decide a particular agency-level protest, can its dismissal of that protest on the grounds that the agency didn’t have jurisdiction to hear the protest in the first instance really be considered “adverse agency...
by Garry Grossman, Principal, McCarthy, Sweeney & Harkaway, PC | Dec 3, 2012 | Offers/Protests
At the GAO, Science Applications International Corporation protested award of a task order under a task order contract to Computer Sciences Corporation. The Defense Intelligence Agency had previously implemented the ORION project to improve the handling of data for...
by Garry Grossman, Principal, McCarthy, Sweeney & Harkaway, PC | Nov 7, 2012 | Offers/Protests
At the GAO, Supreme Foodservice (“Supreme”) protested award to ANHAM FZCO (“ANHAM”), of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (“DLA”) for the supply and distribution of perishable and semi-perishable...
by Garry Grossman, Principal, McCarthy, Sweeney & Harkaway, PC | Oct 11, 2012 | Accounting, Offers/Protests
In May 2012 the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) issued a request for quotations to establish a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) for hazardous waste removal services. The best value evaluation scheme required the VA to consider offerors’ prices, past performance,...
