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File:  B-419300 Date:  December 16, 2020 David S. Gallacher, Esq., Emily S. Theriault, Esq., and Adam A. Bartolanzo, Esq., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, for the protester. Elizabeth Connally, Esq., Connally Law, PLLC; John E. McCarthy, Jr., Esq., and Robert J. Sneckenberg, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for Superior Optical Labs, Inc., the intervenor. Natica Chapman Neely, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1.  ...

FedRAMP FedRAMP moderate risk impact level certification for cloud storage platform.   Id. at 3. Thirteen firms responded to the October 2019 RFI.  AR, Tab 27, Market Research Report at 20.  The protester’s RFI response included a claimed capability narrative for FedRAMP that indicated that its cloud-hosted storage solution was built to meet FedRAMP requirements and was undergoing FedRAMP assessment and audit.  AR, Tab 12, Panasonic RFI Response at 5.  Between November 2019 and January 2020, the agency emailed follow-up questions to the respondents of the October 2019 RFI a...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has shown a keen interest in procuring certain prototype, research, and production requirements using the Other Transaction Authority (OTA) at 10 U.S.C. § 2371b. The advantage of OTAs is that they are highly flexible, meaning they can usually avoid the burden of complex government regulatory requirements included in the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and its agency-specific supplements. As the use of OTAs increases across the DoD, fed...

Elan Taylor, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Young H. Cho, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Request for recommendation that protest costs be reimbursed after our Office dismissed a protest as premature in light of an ongoing investigation into the allegation of an organizational conflict of interest is dismissed where the agency did not take corrective action in the prior protest.  DECISION Optimize Consulting, Inc., of Palatka, Florida, requests that our Office recommend that the Defens...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Historically, bid protests were filed in the federal district courts. Under the Administrative Procedures Act, 5 U.S.C. § 702, federal district courts reviewed challenges to agency procurement decisions. Known as the “Scanwell Doctrine,” this federal district court authority was named after the 1970 D.C. Circuit Court decision in Scanwell Lab., Inc. v. Schaffer, 424 F.2d 859 (D.C. Cir. 1970). If you are filing a bid protest, it is important to hire a knowledgeable attorney to guide you through this sometimes complex process. I...