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An Instructive Warning to Contractors of the Need to Understand CDA Requirements
New FAR Rule Implements Increased Minimum Dollar Threshold for GAO’s Protest Jurisdiction Over DoD, NASA, and Coast Guard Task Orders
DoD Wants Protesters to Choose Between GAO, COFC
Employee or Independent Contractor? California Supreme Court Adopts New Test for Worker Classification
Contractor Cannot Appeal Termination for Cause and Seek Recovery of Costs Five Years Later; ASBCA No. 61004, Western Trading Company
Contractor Denied Costs from Termination For Convenience For Failing To Deliver Required Vehicles; ASBCA No. 61063, Green Bay Logistics Services Co.
COFC Finds that Pre-Award Protest is Barred by the Doctrine of Laches; COFC No. 17-1875C, Global Dynamics, LLC v. United States
Mayberry Enterprises, LLC v. Dep’t of Energy
SBA Seeks Information on Proposed Subcontractor Past Performance Pilot Program
Fourth Circuit Embraces Expansive View of Derivative Sovereign Immunity for Government Contractors
Joseph Petrillo: Why SSA Abandoned Printer Procurement Over Supply Chain Risks
Two-Minute Warning – GAO’s Timeliness Rules Have Multiple Triggers
Failure to Timely Challenge Agency’s Cost Realism Methodology and Solicitation’s Patent Ambiguity Sinks Protest; GAO B-413028.5, Planned Systems International Inc.
SBA Regulations and FAR Provide No Right for Potential Offerors to File Size Protests on Sole-Source 8(a) Procurements; SBA No. SIZ-5894, GovSmart Inc.
OHA Overrules Assignment of Administrative Services NAICS Code to Procurement for Civil Engineering Supply Store; SBA No. NAICS-5886, NAICS Appeal of Noble Supply & Logistics
Agency’s Price Evaluation Amounted to Improper Price Realism Evaluation, but Protester Not Prejudiced by Error; GAO B-415193.2, Crawford RealStreet Joint Venture
SBA OHA’s Finding of Control by an Owner with 1/120th Ownership Demonstrates Breadth of Multiple Minority Shareholder Affiliation Rule
Supreme Court to Decide Whether the SEC’s Administrative Law Judges Are Officers of the United States Under the Appointments Clause of the Constitution
When is a Surety a “Contractor” with the Government at the Boards Of Contract Appeals?
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