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Case of the week: The Boeing Co. v. United States, No. 19-2148 (Aug. 10, 2020)
Panel: Judges Moore, Taranto, and Chen, with Judge Taranto authoring the opinion
Read this case if: you have a matter involving the Blue & Gold contract waiver doctrine.
This week’s featured case is about an issue the government often raises in contract cases—waiver, particularly under Blue & Gold Fleet, L.P. v. United States. In Blue & Gold, the Federal Circuit held that “a party who has the opportunity to object to the terms of a government solicitation containing a patent error and fails to do so prior to the close of the bidding process waives its ability to raise the same objection subsequently in a bid protest action.” This week in Boeing, the Federal Circuit limited that rule’s reach when the contracting agency could not have granted any meaningful relief during the pre-award process.