Cunningham v. Cheatham

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that when the solicitation “is silent as to the precise methodology of the price realism analysis contemplated by the [agency], the [agency] enjoy[s] broad discretion in conducting its price realism analysis”
• noting the protestor challenged not the terms of the solicitation but the proposed award to a particular offeror
• applying the “substantial chance” test in a pre-award bid protest because the protestor challenged not the terms of the solicitation but the proposed award to a particular offeror
• observing that “a price reasonableness analysis has the goal of preventing the government from paying too much for contract work” while a price realism analysis “investigates whether the contractor is proposing a price so low that performance of the contract will be threatened”
• “[D]iscussions become misleading when communications from the government misdirect the protestor as it revises its proposal.”
• “A' price realism analysis ... investigates whether the contractor is proposing a price so low that performance of the contract will be threatened.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).