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Awardee Hired Agency Official Who Helped Plan Acquisition. Why Didn’t the Awardee Have an Unfair Advantage?
DFARS Proposed Rule – Restriction on Certain Metal Products
Why Did COFC Order a Do-Over on the Polaris Solicitations?
You Don’t Get a Gold Star Just For Exceeding the Solicitation’s Requirements
Final Rule – Exemption of Certain Contracts from the Periodic Inflation Adjustments to the Acquisition-Related Thresholds
The Bearable Slightness of Disagreeing: You Think the Agency Got It Wrong, But That’s Not Enough to Prevail on a Protest
The Contract Included Production Rates. Did these Rates Convert a Putative IDIQ Contract Into a Requirements Contract?
Final Rule – Acquisition of Helium
Protester Proved Multiple Evaluation Errors. Why Didn’t the Court Sustain the Protest?
Was the Awardee’s Price Too Low or Was the Protester “Conjuring” a Price Realism Criterion from the Solicitation Instructions?
SBA Final Rule – Ownership and Control and Contractual Assistance Requirements for the 8(a) Business Development Program
Is There a Meaningful Difference Between a Stop-Work Order and a Suspension, or Was the Agency Just Performing “Frivolous Linguistic Gymnastics”?
Awardee Hired Three Agency Officials. Why Didn’t this Result in an Unfair Competitive Advantage?
Grantee’s Procurement Process Lacks Conflict of Interest Policies
The Agency Giveth, and the Agency Taketh Away: Why Was the COFC Cool with the Agency Cancelling the Award and the Solicitation?
Agency Tried to Terminate Contract and Pay Contractor Nothing. Why Did ASBCA Side with the Contractor?
My Bad: Why Did ASCBA Grant the Contractor’s Request for Reconsideration?
What Say You Federal Circuit? Does “Definitization” of a Contract Constitute a Government Claim?
Did GAO Just Limit the Scope of the Close at Hand Doctrine?
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