Atkins v. Busby

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding while the government cannot “cancel its way out of . . . illegal actions” that the agency still had discretion to lawfully terminate a request for quote
• “According to defendant, ‘Based on these and other errors, the contracting officer determined it was necessary to start over with a new procurement.’”
• “According to defendant, ‘Based on these and other errors, the contracting officer determined it was necessary to start over with a new procurement.’”
• noting the government’s explanation that “one of the reasons the contracting officer sought a new procurement was because of [the agency’s] failure to properly withdraw the set- aside requirement in accordance with FAR 19.506[,]” the prior version of FAR 19.502-9
• noting the government’s explanation that “one of the reasons the contracting officer sought a new procurement was because of [the agency’s] failure to properly withdraw the set- aside requirement in accordance with FAR 19.506[,]” the prior version of FAR 19.502-9
• “[T]o establish prejudice in the context of a pre-award bid protest, the plaintiff must show only ‘that'an unreasonable agency decision created a non-trivial competitive injury which can be redressed by judicial relief.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).