This month's Law360 Bid Protest Roundup
focuses on two recent decisions by the U.S. Government
Accountability Office (GAO) and one decision from the U.S. Court of
Federal Claims (COFC). These decisions involve (1) the consequences
of key personnel unavailability that occurs during corrective
action following a protest, (2) the government's exposure to
sanctions for failing to produce the complete administrative record
in a protest before COFC, and (3) the broad discretion agencies
enjoy in setting procurement-related deadlines.
Ashlin Management Group1
In Ashlin Management Group, the GAO addressed a
situation in which one of the awardee's quoted key personnel
became unavailable during the post-award corrective action period.
In sustaining the protest on that ground only, the GAO determined
that the awardee, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. (BAH), was ineligible
for award because it had actual knowledge of the unavailability of
one of its key personnel, and that BAH
