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Contract Contained Options But Task Order Didn’t. Was the Agency Required to Exercise Options Under the Task Order?
DFARS Interim Rule – Restriction on Acquisition of Personal Protective Equipment and Certain Items From Non-Allied Foreign Nations
Protester Consulted with Former Agency Official But Claimed It Didn’t Get an Unfair Advantage. GAO Disagreed. Why Was Disqualification of the Protester Warranted?
Is “Price Credibility” the Same Thing as Price Realism?
JV Partners Worked on Past Contracts as Prime and Sub, not as a JV. Why Was the Agency Allowed to Attribute these Past Contracts to their JV?
DFARS Proposed Rule – Defense Commercial Solutions Opening
Who Qualifies as a Professional? GAO’s Got Some Thoughts
OHA Reverses Itself. Turns Out Initiating Litigation Is an Extraordinary Action, Not Just Part of Normal Contract Performance
If Alleged Disparate Treatment Implicates Highly Technical Esoterica, GAO Will Probably Defer to the Agency
Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking – Challenge Period for Validation of Asserted Restrictions on Technical Data and Computer Software
“You Sit on a Throne of Conjecture!” How Did the Agency’s Assumptions Deep Six this Award?
Protester Never Got a Chance to Respond to “Errantly-Delivered” CPARS Report. Should the Agency Have Relied on that Report?
GAO Limns the Opaque Line Between Unstated Criteria and Matters Logically Encompassed by Solicitation
Final Rule – United States Mexico Canada Agreement
If the SSA Removes 33 Strengths Assigned by the Evaluators, He Better Have a Cogent Explanation
The Experience Factor Listed Four Metrics. The Awardee Only Addressed Two. Why Did GAO Let it Slide?
Awardee and Its Subsidiary Both Had Task Orders Under the Same IDIQ Contract. Why Didn’t this Create an OCI?
Awardee Tried to Hire Protester’s Key Personnel. Why Wasn’t this Proof of a Bait-and-Switch?
Interim Rule – Prohibition on Procurements from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
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