The following is an installment in Crowell & Moring’s Bid Protest Sustain of the Month Series. In this series, Crowell’s Government Contracts Practice keeps you up to date with a summary of one of the most notable bid protest sustain decisions each month. Below, Crowell Consultant (and former GAO Bid Protest Hearing Officer) Cherie Owen discusses GAO’s only sustain decision of March 2026, N&S Property Services, LLC, where an agency’s technical evaluation repeatedly penalized a protester for doing precisely what the solicitation required.

In a significant decision for government contractors, on April 15, 2026, in Life Science Logistics, LLC v. United States, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that bid protesters challenging an agency’s override of an automatic stay of contract performance under the Competition in Contracting Act (CICA) need not satisfy the demanding four-factor test traditionally required for preliminary injunctive relief.  In so doing, the Federal Circuit clarified that CICA stay override challenges need only demonstrate that the override decision was arbitrary and capricious—nothing more.

The following is an installment in Crowell & Moring’s Bid Protest Sustain of the Month Series.  In this series, Crowell’s Government Contracts Practice keeps you up to date with a summary of one of the most notable bid protest sustain decisions each month.  Below, Crowell Consultant (and former GAO Bid Protest Hearing Officer) Cherie Owen discusses GAO’s decision in Morrish-Wallace Construction d/b/a Ryba Marine Construction Co., where a company’s failure to acknowledge a solicitation amendment proved fatal to its bid. 

The following is an installment in Crowell & Moring’s Bid Protest Sustain of the Month Series.  In this series, Crowell’s Government Contracts Practice will keep you up to date with a summary of one of the most notable bid protest sustain decisions each month.  Below, Crowell Consultant (and former GAO Bid Protest Hearing Officer) Cherie Owen discusses GAO’s first sustain decision of 2026, which included an important discussion of unequal treatment.  

Last week, the Federal Circuit heard oral argument in Global K9 Protection Group, LLC v. United States, a bid protest appeal concerning, in part, whether an awardee who chose not to intervene at the outset of the protest should have been allowed to do so after its award was enjoined.

The following is an installment in Crowell & Moring’s Bid Protest Sustain of the Month Series.  Each month, Crowell’s Government Contracts Practice highlights notable bid protest sustain decisions.  Below, Crowell Consultant (and former GAO Bid Protest Hearing Officer) Cherie Owen discusses two decisions where GAO rejected agency attempts at gamesmanship in the protest process.

The following is an installment in Crowell & Moring’s Bid Protest Sustain of the Month Series.  In this series, Crowell’s Government Contracts Practice keeps you up to date with a summary of one of the most notable bid protest sustain decisions each month.  Below, Crowell Consultant (and former GAO Bid Protest Hearing Officer) Cherie Owen discusses GAO’s decision sustaining the protest of Castro & Company, LLC, which focused upon a firm’s organizational conflicts of interest.