Pai Corp. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a disappointed bidder must point to “hard facts” to show that a CO’s decision was arbitrary
• stating that documentation is not required when the contracting officer determines that a conflict of interest is not significant
• stating that a plaintiffs first step toward prevailing in a bid protest is to demonstrate error
• stating that an agency’s action may also be arbitrary and capricious if “the procurement procedure involved a violation of regulation or procedure.”
• explaining that “[c]ontracting officers are entitled to exercise discretion upon a broad range of issues confronting them in the procurement process”
• stating that the issue is “whether the contracting officer failed to exercise proper discretion and to follow proper procedures in making the determination that no organizational conflict of interest existed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

131 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Turner Const. Co., Inc. v. United States
  Federal Circuit· 2011-07-14· cited 152×
• Per Aarsleff A/S v. United States
  Federal Circuit· 2016-06-23· cited 100×
• Cw Government Travel, Inc., D/B/A Cwtsatotravel v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2013-04-11· cited 80×
• Sierra Nevada Corp. v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2012-11-01· cited 68×
• Crassociates, Inc. v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2011-12-23· cited 50×
• Safeguard Base Operations, LLC v. United States
  Federal Circuit· 2021-03-04· cited 48×
• Caddell Construction Co., Inc. v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2013-05-22· cited 47×
• The McVey Company, Inc. v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2013-07-09· cited 45×
• L-3 Communications Corp. v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2011-05-20· cited 39×
• Jacobs Technology Inc. v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2011-07-29· cited 33×
• Oracle America, Inc. v. United States
  Federal Circuit· 2020-09-02· cited 32×
• Glenn Defense Marine (Asia), PTE Ltd. v. States
  Federal Claims· 2012-07-17· cited 32×
• Oak Grove Technologies, LLC v. United States
  Federal Circuit· 2024-09-11· cited 27×
• Pds Consultants, Inc. v. United States
  Federal Circuit· 2018-10-17· cited 26×
• Rochester City Lines, Co. v. City of Rochester, First Transit, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2015-08-19· cited 24×
• American Auto Logistics, Lp v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2014-07-31· cited 23×
• Mitchco International, Inc. v. United States
  Federal Circuit· 2022-03-03· cited 23×
• Netstar-1 Government Consulting, Inc. v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2011-09-30· cited 23×
• UnitedHealth Military & Veterans Services, LLC v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2017-05-30· cited 23×
• Distributed Solutions, Inc. v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2012-05-02· cited 21×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bannum, Inc. v. United States
  Federal Circuit· 2005-04-21· cited 1,137×
• Impresa Construzioni Geom. Domenico Garufi v. United States
  Federal Circuit· 2001-01-03· cited 1,118×
• Advanced Data Concepts, Incorporated v. United States
  Federal Circuit· 2000-06-09· cited 677×
• Axiom Resource Management, Inc. v. United States
  Federal Circuit· 2009-05-04· cited 553×
• Weeks Marine, Inc. v. United States
  Federal Circuit· 2009-08-10· cited 531×
• Blue & Gold Fleet, L.P. v. United States
  Federal Circuit· 2007-06-26· cited 509×
• Caci, Inc.-Federal v. The United States
  Federal Circuit· 1983-10-28· cited 373×
• John C. Grimberg Company, Inc. v. United States
  Federal Circuit· 1999-07-27· cited 100×
• CHE Consulting, Inc. v. United States
  Federal Circuit· 2008-12-30· cited 99×
• Filtration Development Co. v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2004-04-13· cited 65×
• Norfolk Dredging Company, Inc. v. United States, and Bean Stuyvesant, L.L.C.
  Federal Circuit· 2004-08-13· cited 38×
• Arinc Engineering Services, LLC v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2007-06-07· cited 37×
• Alabama Aircraft Industries, Inc.-Birmingham v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2008-09-30· cited 25×