Imperial Coal & Coke Co. v. Hughes

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the Court should not substitute its judgment for that of the agency in bid protest matters
• holding that the Court should not substitute its judgment for the agency’s judgment
• “[w]hile the court is not bound by a determination of the GAO, the court may rely upon such a decision for general guidance to the extent it is reasonable and persuasive in light of the administrative record”
• “[contracting officials’] discretion is especially broad in negotiated procurements”
• using old implied contract theory
• reciting the GAO statute’s definition

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).