by Terrence O'Connor | Feb 18, 2020 | Government Contracts
Unlike the automatic stay of performance that protestors get for free at the Government Accountability Office (GAO), stopping contract performance at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (COFC) comes at a price. The COFC recently imposed a $42,000,000 bond on Amazon for...
by Terrence O'Connor | Jan 21, 2020 | Government Contracts
In this article, we describe the general rules that a government contractor must follow to get an effective debriefing. It is based on our years of government contract experience working with clients who want to get as much information as possible from the government...
by Terrence O'Connor | Dec 18, 2019 | Government Contracts
A recent GAO decision demonstrates why a vendor should continue to track contracts it lost for future modifications made by the government. When the Navy modified a contract that increased the contract value by 77%, a competitor saw the Navy’s public notice of the...
by Terrence O'Connor | Oct 23, 2019 | Government Contracts
Failing to keep a proposal current and accurate all the way through the solicitation process can cost an offeror the contract, according to a recent decision from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (COFC). When the Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Services...
by Terrence O'Connor | Sep 28, 2019 | Government Contracts
A recent GAO decision resolves for the time being a critical small business issue: whether the 3-year revenue average for determining small business status was still valid. GAO denied a protest that argued the 3-year period had been revised by a new law that extended...
by Terrence O'Connor | Sep 20, 2019 | Business Litigation
GAO recently addressed a relatively rare protest issue: a protest of the government’s conversion of a sealed bid solicitation into a negotiated procurement solicitation based on unreasonable bid prices. When the Army wanted to build an access control point at Fort...
by Terrence O'Connor | Aug 16, 2019 | Government Contracts
A protestor that loses a decision before the Government Accountability Office (GAO) can protest the recommended GAO corrective action to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (COFC). As a recent COFC decision shows, the protestor can also challenge the way the Agency is...
by Terrence O'Connor | Aug 16, 2019 | Government Contracts
In the rush to get a proposal finalized and submitted to the government on time, it’s understandable that offerors cannot always labor over every word in every sentence. Unfortunately, attention to detail is critical. Recently, an offeror’s failure to write its...
by Terrence O'Connor | Jul 17, 2019 | Business Litigation
We have previously blogged about some of the critical differences between an offer submitted in response to a Request for Proposal (RFP) and a quote submitted in response to a Request for Quotation (RFQ). A recent decision of the Government Accountability Office (GAO)...
by Terrence O'Connor | Jul 17, 2019 | Government Contracts
The suspension of a long-time government contractor following a security breach shows that the government intends to use the suspension/debarment process to investigate and perhaps punish contractors for cyber security failures. According to limited information in the...
