Consolidated Rail Corp. v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that filing a challenge with the agency pre-award preserves the protestor’s right to protest solicitation terms post-award
• noting that RCFC 52.1(c)(1) limits the court’s inquiry to “whether, given all the disputed and undisputed facts, a party has met its burden of proof based on the evidence of record”
• explaining that the Blue & Gold waiver rule “prevents a bidder who is aware of a solicitation defect from waiting to bring its challenge [until] after the award in an attempt to restart the bidding process”
• noting that “the Blue & Gold waiver rule is predicated not only on the notion of avoiding delay that could benefit the delaying party, but also on the notion of preserving challenges and providing notice to interested parties”
• noting that RCFC 52.1(c)(1) limits the court’s inquiry to “whether, given all the disputed and undisputed facts, a party has met its burden of proof based on the evidence of record” (quoting XOtech, LLC v. United States, 950 F.3d 1376, 1379 (Fed. Cir. 2020))
• “The Court of Federal Claims has relatively broad authority under 28 U.S.C. § 1491(b)(2) to fashion a remedy . . . .”

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