7:00AM, 29 September 2003, A New Week -- New Congressional legislation (the appropriations Bill) would authorize a 10% or $10 million adjustment in favor of federal employees in competitive sourcing where 10 or more government employees are involved. Did you know that there is a Federal Soup.Com when government employees post on-line discussions, this one is about 1102's.

From Mark:
Government Possibly Misplacing Information Does Not Entitle Offeror to Relief

In Shubhada, Inc., B-292437, September 18, 2003, the protester argued that its proposal was unfairly eliminated as technically unacceptable for failing to include a technical proposal. Both parties argued from recollections of matters that occurred months earlier. The protestor alleged that it had submitted the information and that the government must have lost the package containing the technical proposal. The government had no recollection that it had received anything other than the one package not containing the technical proposal. The GAO decided against the offeror, stating that an occasional loss, even if through agency negligence, does not generally entitle the aggrieved competitor to relief. The GAO further stated that the only means to reconstruct the package would be to consider copies offered by the offeror, but allowing an offeror to establish the contents of its lost proposal after the closing date would be inconsistent with maintaining a fair competitive system.

Shubhada, Inc.: http://www.gao.gov/decisions/bidpro/292437.htm

FY 2004 Defense Appropriations Act has been passed by both the Senate and the House and is on the way to the President. No word yet on the Authorization Act. Here is a site for some highlights from the Appropriations Act.

I better start reading some of this stuff.