This GAO decision is Matter of: Global SuperTanker Services, LLC, File: B-414987; B-414987.2.
This post will be brief, while the decision itself is extensive. Extensive in its unrelenting smack-down of an agency trying to defend a specification the decision hails as "a post hoc attempt to justify" an unreasonable restriction on competition. "[T]he agency’s decision to restrict those assets at this time does not withstand logical scrutiny.
If you ever want to see what a comprehensive, almost frolicking, dismantling of lumbering argument looks like, this will give you an entertaining read. Clearly, the Forest Service was unable to see the forest for its own trees.
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