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You should not care. Categories: Technical evaluation, professional employee compensation, best value Date: 20 January 2026 URL: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-422811.3 Inflowlogistics protested an Air Force task order for TRIPLECROWN II cyberreadiness and training support at Joint Base San Antonio—Lackland. The protest challenged the
You should not care. Category: Timeliness, simplified acquisition, debriefing Date: 16 January 2026 URL: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-424053 ASG Solutions protested a Navy simplified-acquisition award for administrative support services in Bahrain, arguing the agency failed to evaluate quotations consistent with the solicitation and improperly denied it
You should not care Category: Organizational conflicts of interest, technical evaluation, price Date: 16 January 2026 URL: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-423859,b-423859.2 Accenture protested TRANSCOM’s award of the JTMS implementation contract to CACI, arguing the agency mishandled organizational conflicts of interest, misevaluated the
You should not care. Category: Timeliness, interested party, late quotation Date: 14 January 2026 URL: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-423980 Mission Analytics protested Air Force procurement actions involving a CCTV system, challenging both the solicitation terms and the eventual award. GAO dismissed the protest on straightforward procedural grounds.
You should not care. Category: Best value, price evaluation, responsibility Date: 14 January 2026 URL: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-423597.2,b-423597.3 Strategic Resources protested the Army’s task-order award to 360 Patriot for military funeral honors and survivor outreach services, attacking the technical
You should not care. Category: Responsibility, SBA certificate of competency Date: 13 January 2026 URL: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-424024 Calvary protested the VA’s decision to reject its low bid for a renovation project after the agency found the firm nonresponsible and SBA refused to issue
You should not care Category: Scope challenge, Rule of Two, task order jurisdiction Date: 12 January 2026 URL: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-423868 JDSAT protested a Navy solicitation for professional services issued under the BUMED Operations, Plans & Readiness multiple-award contract. The company argued the requirement was
You should care. Category: AbilityOne, SDVOSB preference, process issue Date: 12 January 2026 URL: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-423857 Magellan protested the VA’s plan to sole-source Lexington VAMC switchboard services to an AbilityOne nonprofit rather than consider an SDVOSB set-aside. Like similar disputes at
You should not care. Category: Reconsideration, timeliness, EPDS Date: 5 January 2026 URL: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-424096.2 Oready asked GAO to reconsider an earlier dismissal of its untimely protest in a Bureau of Land Management procurement for online auction services. The earlier case turned on filing
Anthropic has announced it will begin "watermarking" LLM-produced text to comply with the EU AI Act, which requires the labeling of content developed by artificial intelligence. While the company published an explainer , I asked AI to demonstrate such watermarking by italicizing elements of the watermark in its
