Life Together Coaching, LLC
GAO · Jan 28, 2026
- Jurisdiction
- federal
- Court
- GAO
- Record ID
- life-together-coaching-llc-2026-01-28
- Observed outcome
- Protest denied; the GAO issued a formal warning regarding the protester's use of fabricated and misrepresented legal authority.
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
Why this matter warrants attention
The GAO issued a warning to a pro se protester for citing non-existent case law and misrepresenting the content of actual GAO decisions in its filings. The GAO cautioned that such conduct undermines the integrity of the protest process and may lead to future sanctions, although it declined to impose sanctions in this specific matter.
Fabricated: Case Law | Protester cited a non-existent GAO decision 'Rotech Healthcare Inc., B-414551 (2017)'; GAO could not locate a decision matching that B-number or party. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Protester misrepresented the content of several GAO decisions in its filings; GAO identified multiple instances where the substance asserted by the protester was unsupported by the cited decisions.
This record documents a Pro Se Litigant filing issue in GAO, with the listed outcome: Warning.
Failure modes and consequences
- Pro Se
- Fake Citations
- Misrepresented Authority
- Administrative
- Trial
- Warning
- AI attribution
- Reported
- Recorded tool
- AI (implied, unspecified)
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
- Procedural posture
- Bid protest denied by the GAO on January 28, 2026, following a review of the agency's evaluation of quotations.
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