Our monthly bid protest Law360 spotlight will discuss a
handful of interesting bid protests from the preceding month,
highlighting the most noteworthy aspects of the decisions for
companies competing for contracts and agencies seeking
procurement.
This installment of our bid protest roundup takes a look at
three interesting protests from May.
The first examines the Government Accountability Office's
(GAO) rejection of an agency's exclusion of an offeror from
competition due to a subcontractor's employment of a former
government employee who had a connection to the procurement at
issue and a prior professional relationship with at least one of
the agency's evaluators.
Our second decision is a case of "third try's a
charm," where the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
found in favor of the protester after the GAO and the Court of
Federal Claims denied a protest challenging a longstanding award
limitation found in certain Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Servi
