In his most recent recent blog post for “Battle Lines”, his weekly guest blog for the Washington Business Journal, FedBiz Daily Section, MWL partner Bill Welch analyzes a bid protest that failed because the agency’s instructions were very clear that the page limitation set forth in the RFP was “all-inclusive (e.g., includes all pages – cover to cover); . . . ALL DOCUMENTS WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE PAGE LIMITATION.”  Although normally agencies allow proposals to include  introductory material, including a cover letter, table of contents, and a definition list, that does not count towards the page limitations, you have to read the RFP to make sure that’s the case (it wasn’t in this case).

See the full blog entry here.