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Texas Executive Order Substantially Limits Private Employers From Mandating COVID-19 Vaccinations
Vaccine Mandate for Government Contractors: Guidance and FAR Class Deviation Bring Clarity and Questions
Federal Contractors Will Need to Decide which of their Employees Are Exempt from Vaccine Mandate
DoD’s Commercial Buying Challenges
Decision to Cancel Solicitation Lacked “Limpidity,” But Court Still Discerned Agency’s Rationale; Yang Enterprises, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 21-1540C
But You Said We Were Cool: Agency Employee Who Lacked Authority to Bind Government Can’t Approve a Change to the Contract; Appeal of Sauer, Inc., ASBCA No. 61847
Government Contracts Legal Round-Up
Fastest 5 Minutes: COVID Vaccine Mandate, Cybersecurity, DOD’s Climate Adaptation Plan
State Efforts to Require or Ban Vaccine Mandates Raise Conflicting Legal Issues
This Will Only Hurt a Bit: The GSA Mandates COVID-19 Vaccines in Nearly All Existing Contract Types
FAR Council Issues Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Contract Language and Guidance to Agencies
Investors Have a New Reason to Worry About Buying into Federal Contractors
New Bill Would Secure Government Contractors’ Use of AI
CISA Awards $2 Million Grants to Train Cybersecurity Workers in Underserved Rural, Urban Areas
Claimant Lacked Evidence to Challenge Wage Adjustment, Loses Federal Circuit Appeal; Billie O. Stone, dba Stobil Enterprise v. Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Fed. Cir. 2020-1732
Federal Circuit Doesn’t Have Jurisdiction to Consider Appeal of Board Decision Issued Under Small Claims Procedures; Billie O. Stone, dba Stobil Enterprise v. Secretary of the Air Force, Fed. Cir. 2020-1233
Unless Solicitation Prescribes a Particular Methodology, Nature of Price Realism Evaluation Is Within Agency’s Discretion; Agile Bot II, LLC v. United States, COFC No. 21-1529C
New Contractor Insights On ‘Other Transaction’ Bid Protests
Agencies Continue to Lay Groundwork for Consideration of Potential FAR Amendments Aimed at Climate Change Risks
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