This week in protests: Thursday, 3 April 2025

EKK Investments shopped its fruits and vegetables in Korea to the Defense Commissary Agency. Unfortunately, DeCA was right to use noncompetitive procedures in making its OCONUS award.

Meanwhile, GovTranz’s attempts to provide wheelchair services in the ATL were dashed by unclear pricing (GAO denied the protest).

I didn’t know about class 2 to 4 crypto, but it’s sub-Bitcoin and -Ethereum. Wave Digital Assets tried to manage and dispose of such seized/forfeited assets, but it appeared to lack proper licenses. Saying its competitors also lacked such licensure didn’t work out so well.

FEMA said yes to armed guard services; a protester who forgot to detail their weapons inventory lost out. Meanwhile the Army Corps of Engineers attempted to maintain access-control points, but created a latent ambiguity by not explicitly excluding charts from the technical narrative page count. As AI summarized, the “protest challenging agency’s determination that protester’s quotation exceeded solicitation’s page limits is sustained.”

Finally, “GAO rejected Kayhan’s claim that Slingshot placed improper conditions on the government, finding Slingshot's offer of additional benefits contingent on exercising all options was permissible.” They also tried unbalanced pricing. Nope.

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