VectorCSP Unsuccessful in Protest to Coast Guard Contract Award

Oct. 4, 2023, 7:45 PM UTC

The Government Accountability Office denied VectorCSP LLC’s protest bid over the US Coast Guard’s contract award for the complete life cycle management of a ship design and engineering project.

The GAO in a decision released on Wednesday rejected Vector’s argument that the agency should have given it credit for its knowledge about a predecessor contract it used as a reference instead of marking it as irrelevant based on previous decisions.

Though an agency can consider “close-at-hand” experience information not found in a firm’s proposal, the GAO has “declined” to “require an agency to consider close-at-hand information in the context of ...

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