GAO’s Praescient decision shows that data modernization proposals need more than general capabilities. Contractors pursuing AI, analytics, data engineering, and data-management work should explain staffing, task alignment, governance, call-order support, data quality, implementation logic, and evaluation-factor compliance.

GAO’s FCN reconsideration decision shows that protest comments are not a second initial protest. Contractors must raise detailed legal and factual grounds early, especially for solicitation challenges involving ambiguity, brand-name-or-equal terms, salient characteristics, restrictiveness, or de facto sole-source concerns.