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In federal procurement challenges, courts apply the APA’s “arbitrary and capricious” standard, asking whether the agency had a rational basis and followed the law. The decision is upheld if the record shows reasoned decision-making, but it can be set aside for clear errors, ignored factors, or prejudicial violations. This article explains how the standard works […]
To win an arbitrary-and-capricious challenge, you must show the agency lacked a rational basis, relied on improper factors, ignored key evidence, or failed to explain its decision in the administrative record. Many cases fail because litigants skip record-based proof, miss preservation and exhaustion rules, or attack the outcome rather than the agency’s reasoning process. This
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