Alfa Laval Separation, Inc. v. United States, and Westfalia Separators, Inc.

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• holding that an \agency is strictly bound by [the] terms\ of the standards set out in the solicitation
• holding that a protester must show only “that there was a substantial chance it would have received the contract award but for that error”
• holding that a protest based on the failure to relax solicitation requirements equally among offerors should have been sustained
• holding that when an agency changes requirements for responsibility in an RFP it is obligated to inform interested bidders of the change
• holding that in order to show prejudice, plaintiff need only show “ ‘that it was within the zone of active consideration’ ”
• stating that to prevail in a bid protest, a plaintiff must demonstrate both that an error occurred and that the error was prejudicial

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