Articles
🔒 Members Only · Protests & Claims BriefYou’ve reached the member portion of this brief.Members read the full analysis and the source documents in every Brief, six days a week.
Short Take: Administration Plans May Mean Further Pressure on Many Government Acquisition Professionals
Final Rule Requires Contractors to Identify Public Disclosure of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Reduction Goals
Final Rule Makes Technical Amendments to FAR
GAO Greenlights $58 Billion in DoD TRICARE Awards, Denying Nine Industry Protests
Obama, Issuing Veto Threat, Tells Agencies to Continue Issuing ‘Midnight’ Regulations
House Republican Leaders Warn Administration Against “Midnight Regulations”
Agency’s Reliance on Unstated Evaluation Criteria Leads to Sustained Protest
Leaders in the Field: Covington & Burling
Even for a Fixed Price Contract, Valid Price Analysis Requires Logical Reasoning
Insurance Costs Unallowable When Not Required by Contract or Approved by CO; CBCA 4985, Mission Support Alliance LLC v. Department of Energy
Government Fails to Demonstrate Allegedly Diverted Work Fell Outside Scope of Plaintiff’s Contract; COFC No. 15-1049C; Certified Construction Co. of Kentucky LLC v. United States
Potential Split Emerges Regarding the Proper Interpretation of the Supreme Court’s Decision in Escobar
DPAP Issues Class Deviation Prohibiting Contracts with Entities Prohibiting Employees from Reporting Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
Construction Company Officer Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Defraud Government
Lack of Past Performance Evaluation, Awardee’s Exception to Material Requirement Likely Meritorious Protest Grounds for Costs; GAO B-412297.3, Shertech Pharmacy Piedmont LLC—Costs
The Firm Fixed Price Profits Reduction Clause: Government Takes All the Benefits and None of the Risk?
GAO: Oral Final Proposal Revisions Were Permissible
Protester’s Failure to Identify Proposed Employees by Security Clearance Level Communicated Lack of Understanding or Inability to Meet Requirement; B-413421, Abacus Technology Corporation; SMS Data Products Group Inc.
Projects More Relevant to Requirement, Geographic Region Reasonably Utilized to Differentiate Between Two Equally-Rated Proposals; GAO B-413586 AGVIQ LLC
Keep reading
