A protest decision is the one record of a competitor fighting for a contract
An award record shows who won. It never shows who went to court over it. The decisions of the Court of Federal Claims do: who sued, and what the judge wrote. They are on file as the court published them, one row an opinion, the newest first.
Bid protests and contract cases, newest first
The Court of Federal Claims screen is under Intelligence in the menu, in Companies and records. Search by words in the case title: a company, an agency, a word of the caption. Narrow by the year decided, or to bid protests only.
Each row gives the day it was decided, the case with its number and its judge, the party suing, and the nature of the suit in the court's own words. The title opens the court's own document, as a PDF or as text.
- The party suing is the name before v. in the title
- It links to a company only when exactly one company on record has that name
- A case is marked a bid protest only where the court coded it as one
- No word in a title decides it
At the Court of Federal Claims
A company with a case carries a card on its own page: how many cases are on file where that company is the party suing, how many of them the court coded as bid protests, and the latest decisions, each one press from the document.
Read before a recompete, it tells you whether the company you are up against has taken a case to the court before.
What is not here
These are the cases taken to the court. Protests decided at the Government Accountability Office are not here, because it publishes no file of them. So a company with no case on this screen may still have protested there.
Where it stops
The Court of Federal Claims screen comes with every paid plan, and a search lists as many rows as your plan lists for any search. A row is one opinion, so a long case can have several. It is the published decision and not legal advice.
Where it is in the app
Court of Federal Claims, under Intelligence in the menu, in Companies and records. Intelligence is the part of LastAwarded that finds the market, one of the eight parts.
Related
- Incumbent profilesThe company page the card sits on.
- Sole sourceThe other published document behind an award.
- Reading award recordsThe award a case is about, and how to read it.
- Listed companies NewWhat a company reported to the SEC.
- Lobbying filingsWhat a company asks the government for.
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Every code, every buying office, every vendor and every recompete, organized from the federal record and read nightly. Open it with a plan.