Written by
Nick Blenkey
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As those that watch these items know, the Authorities Accountability Workplace (GAO) rejects the vast majority of bid protests filed with it. Nonetheless, numerous bid protests do, in actual fact, succeed and GAO has sustained a protest filed by America’s largest supplier of dredging companies, Nice Lakes Dredge & Dock Firm, LLC (GLDD) towards the cancellation of an invite for bids (IFB) [No. W912BU-22-B-0009] issued by the U.S. Military Corps of Engineers for beachfill and periodic nourishment for shoreline areas in New Jersey. GLDD additionally challenged the company’s conversion of the IFB to a negotiated procurement.
In its announcement of its choice, GAO says:
Protest difficult the company’s choice to cancel an invite for bids (IFB) after bid opening and convert the IFB to a negotiated procurement is sustained. Whereas the company had a compelling motive to cancel the IFB when the bids obtained exceeded obtainable funding, this motive for cancelation didn’t present the company with the authorized authority to transform the IFB to a negotiated procurement.
DECISION
Nice Lakes Dredge & Dock Firm, LLC, of Houston, Texas, protests the cancellation of invitation for bids (IFB) No. W912BU-22-B-0009, issued by the Division of the Military, Military Corps of Engineers (Corps), for beachfill and periodic nourishment for shoreline areas in New Jersey. The protester additionally challenges the company’s conversion of the IFB to a negotiated procurement.
We maintain the protest.
- The total bid protest choice, with the background to the case, dialogue, and GAO suggestion, might be downloaded HERE
