Agency Misreads Proposal; Contractor Wins GAO Bid Protest

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts,” said the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

In a recently published bid protest decision, the GAO held that a procuring agency was not entitled to its own facts when it came to the contents of the protester’s proposal.  Because the proposal contained the very items the agency claimed were missing, the GAO sustained the protest.

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