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Purpose: The purpose of this COP is to give the AT&L professional a centralized location to go to for questions dealing with acquisition law.

 

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[Case Studies] Protest challenging the terms of a solicitation is timely where the solicitation expressly permitted offerors to take exception to its terms and the record does not show that the agency performed adequate market research to demonstrate that the terms were consistent with customary commercial practice,

Tue, 02 Oct 2012

[Case Studies] Protest that agency failed to meaningfully consider price in issuing blanket purchase agreements under Federal Supply Schedule program involving a maximum of $900 million in orders is sustained where the record shows that the agency selected vendors only on the basis of their technical evaluation scores.

Tue, 02 Oct 2012

[Case Studies] Protest is sustained where agency unreasonably evaluated the protester’s pricing as unbalanced and conducted a technical-price tradeoff without meaningfully considering the lower prices set forth in the protester’s quotation.

Wed, 19 Sep 2012

[Case Studies] Protester contends that the agency’s evaluation and source selection decision were unreasonable in several respects.

Wed, 12 Sep 2012

[Related Websites] Lockheed Martin has authoriesed DAU to post a link to their corporate Ethics web site and invite all interested to review Lockheed Martin's Ethics and Values Statement and call their toll free number with any questions or concerns.

Wed, 05 Sep 2012

[Case Studies] Protest challenging Air Force’s use of a Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentality (NAFI) to provide mission essential food services is sustained where the Air Force transferred the mission essential food service requirements to the NAFI

Thu, 30 Aug 2012

[Related Websites] Boeing is first to post a link to their corporate Ethics web site and invite all interested to review Boeing’s Code of Conduct/Corporate Values and call their toll free number with any questions or concerns.

Tue, 28 Aug 2012

[Case Studies] Protest that an agency improperly made upward adjustments to the protester’s level of effort as part of its analysis

Mon, 27 Aug 2012

[Case Studies] Protester’s argument that its technically acceptable quotation was excluded from the competition without consideration of price in a best value acquisition for the establishment of blanket purchase agreements (BPA) under the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) is sustained where the record shows that the agency “downsized” the pool of vendors, by excluding some of them, like the protester, who were technically acceptable, without consideration of their lower prices.

Wed, 22 Aug 2012

[Case Studies] Evaluation methodology utilized by the agency was inconsistent with the terms of the solicitation relating to the relative importance of evaluation factors.

Tue, 21 Aug 2012
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