Mayvin Denied Proposal Costs Despite Army’s Flawed Cancellation

Mayvin Inc. isn’t entitled to costs incurred preparing a bid for a contract under a now-canceled $365 million US Army procurement, despite an August 2025 court ruling that the cancellation was improper.

The Virginia-based contractor failed to connect the Army’s procedural errors in the cancellation of the the systems engineering and technical assistance III procurement to the incurrence of costs, Judge Zachary N. Somers of the US Court of Federal Claims said in a Thursday order.

While Mayvin may have wasted time and resources preparing a proposal, it didn’t show that prejudicial errors the court previously identified caused it ...