Legal Opinion
Vanguard Security Inc. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided April 4, 1990No. 90-202CPublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NETTESHEIM, Judge.
This pre-award bid protest is before the court after argument on cross-motions for summary judgment. At issue is the propriety of the cancellation of a solicitation. A question for decision is whether the Government is bound to obtain the services for which it solicited from the lowest responsive bidder, despite a mistake that, in the Government’s view, changed the type of contract covered by the solicitation. The overarching issue, however, is whether the Government can justify the cancellation based on major defects in the solicitation that were revealed only during…
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