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SBA’s Pending SBIC Leverage Availability Changes: Three Potential Developments That Could Reshape Small Business Investment
COFC Vividly Rejects “Scattershot” Bid Protest Arguments
Clearance or Clear Out: Pre-Award Protest Gets the Boot
You Can’t Fix a Price Leak by Sharing Prices With Everyone: GAO Sustains Protest Over Air Force’s Handling of Improperly Disclosed Pricing
Is an Other Transaction Competition a Procurement Under the Tucker Act? COFC Says Yes
Defaulted Contractor Cries Foul Over Reprocurement — GAO Says Not So Fast
NASA Insourcing: How Government Contractors Can Seek Relief Through REAs, Contract Claims, and Bid Protests
State Income Tax on a Divestiture Gain Is Allowable
Gov Con Horror Stories
Terminated Option? GAO Says Not Our Problem
Sent Is Not Received: GAO Applies the RFO’s Late-Submission Rule to Quotation Blocked by a Spam Filter
The Discussions Did Not Inform the Protester About the Problems with Its Proposal. Why Was GAO Cool with It?
Debriefing to Dead Briefing: How to Avoid Dismissal by Identifying “Required” Debriefings
$245M Fort Carson Base-Operations Contract Stays With Incumbent KTH as GAO Rejects Keta Challenge
Code Challenge Catastrophe: GAO Unimpressed with Incumbent’s Live Presentation
September 2026 Bid Protest Sustain of the Month: When a Help Desk BPA Is Used to Order Full Network Operations, GAO Says No
GAO Upholds Navy Sole-Source Award to Preserve Defense Industrial Base Capacity
The Air Force Spilled the Pricing Beans: Why Telling Everyone Didn’t Fix It
Protester Learns the Hard Way that Experience Is Not a Substitute for a Master’s Degree
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