Percipient.ai Asks SCOTUS to Address Off-the-Shelf Procurement

Percipient.ai wants the US Supreme Court to assess whether the Federal Circuit erred in ruling the company couldn’t protest a US agency’s refusal to consider its commercially available AI-assisted product.

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s conclusion that Percipient wasn’t an interested party with a chance to win a contract is a “dead wrong” interpretation of the Tucker Act, which sets conditions for protests, Percipient.ai said in its petition for writ of certiorari.

The Federal Circuit’s decision also blocks enforcement of a law Congress enacted to maximize use of commercial products generated from private sector innovators, which ...