Central Arkansas Maintenance, Inc., Plaintiff/cross-Appellant v. The United States, and Ferguson-Williams, Inc., Third Party Intervenor-Appellant

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “only violations that amount to a breach of the government’s implied contract to consider an offer fairly and honestly will support the court’s exercise of its injunctive powers.”
• federal courts, with the exception of the Supreme Court, have “jurisdictional reach only so far as Congress allows”
• “However, not all violations of statute and regulation are the same; only a ‘clear and prejudicial’ violation of a procurement statute or regulation warrants relief.”
• “The government has substantial administrative, civil, and criminal enforcement authority under the Procurement Integrity Act to police the procurement process.”
• a protester must show, not only an error in the procurement process, but that the error was prejudicial
• “not all violations of ... [a] regulation are the same; only a ‘clear and prejudicial’ violation of a procurement statute or regulation warrants relief.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).