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 Stephanie Wilson | Feb 18, 2020 | Government Contracts
A protestor recently learned the hard way that filing a timely agency-level pre-award protest does not preserve those protest claims indefinitely. The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) published a solicitation for application development and operations and...
by Steve Britt | Feb 11, 2020 | Government Contracts
DoD Releases V1 of CMMC Framework On January 30, 2020, DoD released Version 1 of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Framework (CMMC v.1). When fully implemented, this framework will create a unified standard by which all DoD contractors will be required...
by Stephanie Wilson | Jan 22, 2020 | Government Contracts
A recent GAO decision reaffirms that an agency’s alleged failure to comply with debriefing requirements is a procedural matter not considered by GAO. This decision also highlights why an unsuccessful offeror should be aware of the situations in which a debriefing is...
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 Daniel Alvarado | Jan 8, 2020 | Government Contracts
Contractors holding “continuous” GSA Federal Supply Schedule (“FSS”) contracts must be careful they bid under the correct FSS contract. Starting in February 2016, the General Services Administration (“GSA”) Federal Acquisition Service (“FAS”) allowed contractors to...
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 Daniel Alvarado | Dec 11, 2019 | Government Contracts
Small business concerns will be pleased at the recent news that the Small Business Administration (“SBA”) recently made it easier for a small business to remain “small.” The SBA issued a final rule effective January 6, 2020, that changed the time period for...
by Daniel Alvarado | Nov 20, 2019 | Government Contracts
It is not always easy to figure out where a protest should be filed. Although the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (“COFC”) both handle protests, each has slightly different protest jurisdiction as a protester recently...
by Daniel Alvarado | Nov 19, 2019 | Government Contracts
Government contractors shielding the proprietary information in their contracts from competitors will be pleased to learn about the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) recently issuing new guidance regarding Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) Exemption 4. Generally, the...
