by Terrence O'Connor | May 18, 2020 | Government Contracts
Facing a cash flow crisis brought on by COVID-19, government contractors have only two basic ways of increasing cash flow: getting new contracts and performing incumbent contracts. A lot of media attention has focused on ways contractors can get cash flow help in...
by Terrence O'Connor | Apr 21, 2020 | Government Contracts
On March 30, 2020, the Civilian Agency Acquisition Council (CAAC), the civilian agency component of the FAR Council, expanded the availability of accelerated payments. It issued a FAR class deviation to add small business prime contractors to those entitled to...
by Terrence O'Connor | Apr 20, 2020 | Government Contracts
The new FAR regulations dealing with the small business programs in FAR Part 19 recently adopted by the FAR Council can get lost in the news of the coronavirus and the need for contractors to find ways to keep their doors open. But, buried among the 28 pages of...
by Terrence O'Connor | Mar 20, 2020 | Government Contracts
Getting government contracts in the future depends greatly on how well a company has performed in the past. That’s because Federal procurement policy for years has stressed the importance of the government using past performance as a mandatory evaluation factor in...
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...
