Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Off-the-Shelf Contract Ruling

The US Supreme Court said it won’t consider whether Percipient.ai can protest a US agency’s refusal to consider its commercially available AI-assisted product.

This decision leaves in place a US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decision that found Percipient.ai wasn’t an interested party with a chance to win a contract, a conclusion the company said came from a “dead wrong” interpretation of the Tucker Act—a law that sets conditions for contract protests.

Percipient.ai argued in its petition seeking high court review that the Federal Circuit incorrectly limited the scope of interested parties that can bring protests. CACI argued ...