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Stopped in its Tracks: The Government’s Failure to Track Software Use Constitutes Infringement Under 28 U.S.C. § 1498
DoD’s New Adaptive Acquisition Framework Takes New Approach to Tailoring Procurement Strategies
HASC Chair Pivots Spending Debate to Acquisition Reform
The State of Federal Procurement – Interagency Contracting
Resolving Conflicting COFC Decisions, Federal Circuit Holds that COFC Has Jurisdiction Over Implied-In-Fact Contract Claims in Bid Protests; Safeguard Base Operations, LLC v. United States, B&O Joint Venture, LLC, Fed. Cir. 2019-2261
Court Refuses to Retain Jurisdiction Over Protest to Act as Bulwark Against Potential Errors in Corrective Action; Newimar, S.A. v. United States, COFC No. 20-1724C
Agency Decision to Take Corrective Was Not Pretextual But Reasonably Based on Its Interpretation of a Regulation; Digital Forensic Services, LLC, GAO B-319305.3
Conversion of Default Termination Into Termination for Convenience Moots Claimant’s Appeal; Mubashir Ali v. Agency for Global Media, CBCA 6914
Will Federal Contractors Be Required to Certify Employee COVID Vaccinations?
All Things Protest: COFC Deems Small Business Ineligible for Failing to Recertify as Other than Small under FAR 52.219-8 While Proposal Was Pending Following an Acquisition
U.S. Navy Breached Implied-in-Fact Software License, Federal Circuit Decides in Bitmanagement
Chaos, Cash and COVID-19: How the Defense Industry Survived — and Thrived — During the Pandemic
Checking DoD’s Homework on Acquisition Reforms Top of Mind for Sen. Kaine
A Procurement Potpourri
Federal Circuit Rules that Navy Violated Implied-In-Fact Software License and Infringed Developer’s Copyright; Bitmanagement Software GMBH v. United States, Fed. Circ. 2020-1139
GAO Lacks Jurisdiction Over Protests Involving the White House’s Office of Administration; Argus Secure Technology, LLC, GAO B-419422, B-419422.2
SBA Failed to Follow Its Own Procedures In Terminating Cooperative Agreement; In the Matter of Edge Connection, SBA No. WBC-103
Byte-Sized Q&A: What is Controlled Unclassified Information?
Think Twice Before Protesting an Other Transaction Authority Award
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