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Matter of LOGMET LLC

Government Accountability Office · Federal specialty courts · 2026-04-15 · No. B-423066.2 · other

Fabricated or misquoted citationscourt does not name AI

The Government Accountability Office on 2026-04-15 warned the self-represented party to verify legal authorities and cautioned that future hallucinated or nonexistent citations may bring sanctions in Matter of: LOGMET LLC, B-423066.2. The self-represented party filed a submission with one fabricated case citation and one mischaracterized case citation.

Disposition: The protest was denied, and GAO advised LOGMET that future filings with non-existent authority may result in sanctions.
Recorded conduct: LOGMET’s pro se protest filings cited GAO decisions that GAO could not locate and misrepresented the content of several decisions, including Innovative Test Asset Solutions, LLC, B-419132, Dec. 16, 2020, 2020 CPD ¶ 398. — outcome: warning; actor: litigant in person
Canonical record: Incident tracker entry — verified outcome, regulator disposition and related rules

What the court wrote

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While we do not specifically address all of the protester’s arguments, we have considered them and conclude that they do not provide a basis to sustain the protest. We note that in reviewing the protester’s filings, we identified several irregularities in citations provided by the protester. In this regard, the protester cited decisions of our Office for which we were unable to locate the decisions identified by the protester and misrepresented the content of several decisions. For example, the protester cites to “Innovative Test Asset Solutions, LLC, B-419132, Dec. 16, 2020, 2020 CPD ¶ 398” for the proposition that “omissions affecting the evaluation of a scored factor are material defects” requiring further action from the agency. Protest at 5.

Court document: damiencharlotin.com
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Notes: Re-coded from the document 2026-09-08 (independent second read). Official copy not obtained 2026-09-08: not in the court's GovInfo feed for this docket (many district courts publish only some orders) (checked govinfo.gov (USCOURTS), CourtListener RECAP search).

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