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Government Contracts Bullet Points

May.16.2012 D.C. Circuit Loosens Public Disclosure Bar While Tightening the Reins on Damages
May.15.2012 CORRECTION: Congress to Vote on Radically Altering CFC's Bid Protest Timeliness Rules
Apr.30.2012 What You Should Know in the New Era of Transparent Internal Audits
Apr.27.2012 Routine Request Still "Undisputed" Years Later
Apr.24.2012 D.C. Circuit Fetters Government Discretion to Settle Qui Tam Claims Over Relator's Objection
Apr.20.2012 Air Force Debarment Official To Speak At OOPS
Apr.13.2012 Failure to Comply with Section L Instructions Invalidates Award
Apr.04.2012 Statute of Limitations Runs from Receipt of Auditable Information
Mar.13.2012 Cyber Regs Toughened Up
Feb.29.2012 Airport Public-Private Partnerships Taking Off?
Feb.27.2012 New GSA Contract Vehicle
Feb.23.2012 Substantial Penalties Under the FCA Without Real Damages Violates Eighth Amendment
Feb.14.2012 Inadequate Documentation Dooms Cost Realism Evaluation
Feb.10.2012 No SBA Protest Review of Approved 8(a) Mentor-Protégé JVs
Feb.08.2012 Cyber on the Hill
Feb.06.2012 C&M Top Ranked, Again
Feb.03.2012 DCAA's Use of a Statistically Invalid Analysis for Testing Compensation Reasonableness
Feb.02.2012 Inconsistent Statute of Limitations Decisions -- Or Not?
Feb.01.2012 Will Cyber War Come to a Contract Near You?
Jan.30.2012 IR&D Reporting Requirements Reinstated
Jan.26.2012 CFC Weighs in on Timeliness of OCI Protest
Jan.24.2012 NAFI Contractor Goes Straight to Court When CO Fails to Issue Final Decision
Jan.20.2012 CAS/PPA Harmonization Rules
Jan.18.2012 Congress Enacts Appropriations Restriction Relating to Felony Convictions
Jan.11.2012 For the New Year, Out with Origin but In with New Definitions of Source & Nationality
Jan.09.2012 Turn Square Corners or Sit on Sideline
Jan.05.2012 Executive Compensation Limits Expanded
Jan.03.2012 Contractors Can Review and Object to Public Release of Information in FAPIIS
Dec.29.2011 NASA Pushes FAR, Far Away for Commercial Crew Program
Dec.28.2011 Congress Proposes Changes to Technical Data Rights Statutes
Dec.07.2011 DoD Opens Dialogue With Industry on Open-Source Software
Nov.22.2011 The "Super Committee" Failed – What Now?
Nov.18.2011 New Post-Employment "Revolving Door" Certification
Nov.08.2011 Earlier Complaint Fails 9(b), But Bars FCA Suit
Nov.04.2011 US Liable for Environmental Remediation Costs Under Contract Clauses
Nov.03.2011 IG Confirms Many Recovery Act Criminal Investigations
Nov.02.2011 Final Rule Governing Personal Conflicts of Interest of Contractor and Subcontractor Employees Supporting or Performing Certain Acquisition Functions
Oct.27.2011 Chance to Change Pricing Generally Required After Corrective Action
Oct.26.2011 CFC Finds Unreasonable Deviation from Customary Commercial Practices
Oct.24.2011 Veterans Affairs Snubs GAO?
Oct.21.2011 Interest Due On Indirect Cost Claims
Sep.30.2011 SBA Cannot Replace Agency Responsibility Findings with Its Own
Sep.28.2011 Claim Accrues Before an Impasse
Sep.26.2011 How Do You Prove Prejudice in a Protest?
Sep.21.2011 DOD Revises IP Commercial Item Rules
Sep.20.2011 OMB Announces New "Goal" for Agencies to Accelerate Payments to Small Businesses
Sep.16.2011 Mandatory Display of Fraud Posters
Sep.14.2011 Proposal To Further Executive Branch Employees' Acceptance Of Gifts From Lobbyists
Sep.13.2011 Supreme Court Holds FOIA Response Falls Within FCA Public Disclosure Bar
Aug.19.2011 Elimination of CAS Exemption for Overseas Contracts and Subcontracts
Aug.18.2011 Following GAO Recommendation Doesn't Insulate Agency's Action After Protest
Aug.02.2011 CFC Dismisses Protest of SBA Decision Not to Reopen Size Determination
Jul.20.2011 CFC Faults Agency for Circumventing Protests
Jul.06.2011 Agency Failure to Consider Proposal Differences Invalidates Award
Jun.23.2011 Section 508 Compliance Takes Hit from the Federal Circuit
Jun.20.2011 No Preferential T&C's Mods Allowed for Commercial Item Buys
Jun.17.2011 Likely OCI Due to Unequal Information Access Yields PI
Jun.14.2011 The Sun Has Not Set On Protests Of Civilian Agency Task Orders
Jun.07.2011 Supreme Court Rules on Scope of Federal Contractors' Rights in Federally Funded Inventions
Jun.02.2011 New Rule Prescribes Data Required for Adequate Final Indirect Cost Rate Proposal
May.31.2011 Capital Costs Must be Treated as Indirect Costs
May.27.2011 Transportation Leaders Propose Massive Public-Private Partnership Project in Northeast Rail Corridor
May.23.2011 Interim Business Systems Rule Issued
May.23.2011 A-12 Litigation - After 20 Years a Draw - Or is it?
May.16.2011 Supremes Hold FOIA Response Satisfies FCA Public Disclosure Bar
May.13.2011 California High-Speed Rail: On the Fast Track
May.09.2011 The Great Dissenter Reviewed
May.06.2011 Touhy Fooey
May.02.2011 DOD to Pay All Small Businesses Faster
Apr.26.2011 Proposed FAR Provision Governing Organizational Conflicts of Interest
Apr.11.2011 The Wait Is Over for Women-Owned Small Businesses
Apr.08.2011 We're Staying Open to Handle Your Shutdown Questions
Apr.04.2011 The False Claims Act's Seal Provisions Upheld
Mar.31.2011 Agency's "Mail Storm" Excuses Late Proposal
Mar.24.2011 Government Contracts at the High Court
Mar.16.2011 Enhanced Requirements for Cost-Reimbursement Contracting
Mar.09.2011 Allowability of IR&D Costs: Dis-inflation Run Amok
Mar.04.2011 Federal Circuit Compounds Contractors' Interest Problems
Mar.02.2011 SBA Shakes Up 8(a) Program Regulations
Feb.28.2011 Bid Protests Workshop: Practice, Procedure and Strategy
Feb.25.2011 Shutdown Suspicions? Crowell & Moring Identifies the Questions You Should Be Asking
Feb.23.2011 Take Care to Preserve Ordering and Option Rights
Feb.16.2011 Payment for "Subcontractor" Services on T&M Contracts
Feb.11.2011 OHA Authority and Impact Expanded
Feb.08.2011 D.C. Circuit Adopts Implied Certification, But Rejects Collective Knowledge
Feb.04.2011 Novation Trap For The Unwary
Feb.02.2011 Tucker Act Reaches More NAFIs Than Many Thought
Jan.24.2011 Government to Release Private Contractor Information Contained in FAPIIS
Jan.14.2011 Congress Extends GAO's Bid Protest Jurisdiction Over Certain DoD Task And Delivery Orders
Jan.12.2011 Congress Extends GAO's Task Order Jurisdiction
Jan.10.2011 Inadequate Justification for Restrictive Requirements Leads to Injunction
Jan.04.2011 DoD Issues Final OCI Rule For Major Programs
Jan.03.2011 Contractor Team Arrangement Member Has Privity to Pursue Claims Against the Government
Dec.30.2010 DOD Issues Final OCI Rule For Major Programs
Dec.14.2010 When Does a Breach of Contract Violate the False Claims Act?
Dec.13.2010 Effect of Unilateral Contract Assignment Questioned
Dec.07.2010 "Collective Knowledge" Rejected
Dec.02.2010 Negative Responsibility Determination Overturned
Nov.24.2010 Damages Available For Government Breach of CRADA
Nov.10.2010 Auction Concept Still Lives at CFC
Nov.08.2010 Resolving Old Audit Issues
Oct.29.2010 DOL Again Applies Expansive Interpretation of "Subcontractor"
Oct.12.2010 Market Value is the Price of Holdover Tenancy
Oct.06.2010 New Certification of Iran Sanctions Compliance - for You and Your Subsidiaries
Oct.05.2010 TINA Threshold Raised but Broader Data Requests Likely
Oct.01.2010 Carrots, Sticks, and Fixes in the New Small Business Jobs and Credit Act
Sep.29.2010 DOD Proposes Substantial Revision to Intellectual Property Rules
Sep.28.2010 Technology Replacement Clause Requires Actual Replacement
Sep.24.2010 Compounding The Problem
Sep.14.2010 New Reporting Requirements For Grant and Cooperative Agreement Recipients
Sep.09.2010 Challenge To OCI Waiver Falls Short
Sep.02.2010 Court Reviews Decision to Stop Using SBA 8(a) Contract
Aug.30.2010 Subcontract Unenforceable When Violates SBA Requirements
Aug.20.2010 Another Salvo in the War for Control of Contractor "Systems" Approval
Aug.18.2010 Only Significant OCIs Require Mitigation
Aug.12.2010 CDA's Statute of Limitation Not Jurisdictional
Aug.10.2010 Wherefore Software In Analyzing Substantial Transformation
Aug.06.2010 Equal Treatment Applies Even If Minimum Discussions Threshold Met
Aug.03.2010 FAPIIS Information To Be Publicly Available
Jul.23.2010 DHS Clamps Down On Lead System Integrators
Jul.21.2010 CFC Rules That GAO Made Faulty OCI Analysis
Jul.19.2010 ASBCA Hears Past Performance Evaluation Challenges
Jul.13.2010 Don't Want a Setoff? Better Say It
Jul.09.2010 Reporting Requirements For Executive Compensation And First-Tier Subcontract Awards
Jun.29.2010 CFC Dismisses Adverse Past Performance Challenge
Jun.25.2010 The Best Defense Is A CDA-Compliant Offense
Jun.18.2010 New Pro-Competitive Restrictions On DoD Prototype Line Items and Options
Jun.16.2010 CAS Price Adjustments Limited To "Affected" Contracts
Jun.14.2010 Commerce Proposes Updates To Reauthorized Defense Production Act
Jun.10.2010 Another GSA Schedule Antikickback/FCA Settlement
Jun.08.2010 Another Attempt To Catch GSA Schedule Vendors In Violation of TAA Requirements
Jun.02.2010 No PRB Cost Adjustment For Segment Closings
May.21.2010 GAO Sides With COFC In Continued Battle Over Hubzone Set-Aside Priority
May.19.2010 DOD Implements Restrictions On Employee/Contractor Agreements Requiring Arbitration
May.18.2010 When Size Matters, SBA Has Final Say
May.17.2010 Resellers Policing Each Other On TAA Compliance
May.13.2010 Government Considers On-Line Public Access To Contracts And Task/Delivery Orders
May.06.2010 "Rebalancing" The Federal Workforce
May.03.2010 No Tolerance For Not Meeting Storage Requirements
Apr.28.2010 DoD Issues Proposed Rules Governing Organizational Conflicts of Interest
Apr.27.2010 Court Gives Teeth To Service Disabled Veteran Status
Apr.22.2010 Costs Of Influencing Collective Bargaining Decisions Proposed For Disallowance
Apr.20.2010 New Push Toward Project Labor Agreements For Federal Construction Work
Apr.15.2010 Strict Application Of Micro-Purchase Exception Sinks Award
Apr.12.2010 DCAA Issues Guidance On Revised Travel Cost Rule
Apr.07.2010 Cybersecurity Gets Hot On The Hill
Apr.05.2010 D.C. Circuit Overturns Decision To Release Manufacturing Data Under FOIA
Apr.01.2010 OCIs Must Be Considered During M&A Activity
Mar.31.2010 Latest False Claims Act Developments Further Erode Safeguards Against Parasitic Whistleblower Suits
Mar.30.2010 Recovery Act Buy American Provision: Good News For Canadian Suppliers
Mar.29.2010 CFC Has Jurisdiction Over "Nonprocurement" Protests
Mar.26.2010 Remember To Quote Approved Rates
Mar.25.2010 Ready Or Not, Here FAPIIS Comes -- Significant New Disclosure Requirements For Contractors
Mar.24.2010 MAS Advisory Panel Urges Increased Competition And Transparency
Mar.23.2010 Mandatory Suspension/Debarment Review For "Poorly Performing" Contractors
Mar.22.2010 Help Wanted: Bounty Hunters
Mar.19.2010 TSA Snared in GAO Protest Jurisdiction
Mar.19.2010 IR&D Definition Clarified
Mar.15.2010 GAO Ups the Ante on Biased Ground Rules OCIs
Mar.12.2010 Don't Risk A "Jury Verdict"
Mar.11.2010 Proposed Rule For Women-Owned Small Business Set-Asides
Mar.08.2010 DOD Proposed New Cybersecurity Rules
Mar.04.2010 DoD Implements Franken Amendment For Non-Commercial Contracts
Mar.01.2010 Cost Conference With Discount
Feb.24.2010 No Warranty Without Express Language
Feb.22.2010 Constitutional Challenges To Security Clearance Revocations Are Permissible
Feb.19.2010 Check For Weed
Feb.05.2010 US and Canada Thaw Relations By Reducing Buy American Friction
Feb.04.2010 Agencies May Not Rely On Flawed DCAA Audits
Jan.27.2010 Crackdown On Contractors With Tax Delinquencies
Jan.22.2010 ACO Approval of Contractor Business Systems, With Teeth
Jan.19.2010 Blanket Purchase Order Does Not Equal Task Order Contract
Jan.06.2010 Two Bites Allowed If In Different Spots On The Apple
Jan.04.2010 Weakened Dollar Causes Further Rise In TAA Thresholds
Dec.28.2009 Sweeping Prohibition on Arbitration of Employment Disputes in 2010 Defense Appropriations
Dec.18.2009 Statute Of Limitations Invalidates Government Claim For The First Time
Dec.14.2009 Costs of Air Travel Limited to the “Lowest Priced Airfare Available to the Contractor”
Dec.08.2009 Limits On Bid Protest Review Reinforced
Dec.03.2009 FCA Settlement Does Not Bar Third-Party Claims
Nov.30.2009 FOIA Release Is FCA 'Public Disclosure'
Nov.18.2009 GAO Sustains TRICARE Protest On Multiple Grounds
Nov.11.2009 Ignorance of The Law
Nov.05.2009 SBA Proposes Important New Section 8(A) Regulations
Oct.19.2009 New Limits On Use Of "Of A Type" Commercial Services
Oct.15.2009 "Excessive" Pass-Through Charges Defined And Prohibited
Oct.14.2009 It's All In The Name
Oct.13.2009 3 Days For Contractor ARRA Comments
Sep.28.2009 Many Small Projects Do Not Equal One Big Project
Sep.24.2009 GAO Reports Deficiencies In DCAA Audit Reports
Sep.23.2009 PRB Costs Allowable Whether Measured Under FAS 106 or IRS Criteria
Sep.18.2009 Abu Ghraib Service Contractors Immune From Tort Claims
Sep.14.2009 OCIs Down Air Force Award
Sep.10.2009 25th Anniversary Version Of FMF Guidelines -- No Celebration For It Companies
Aug.28.2009 Get There On Time, Or The Party's Over
Aug.25.2009 Reporting And Registration Under ARRA
Aug.04.2009 Past Performance CDA Appeal Revisited
Jul.31.2009 Crowell & Moring Cops #1 Ranking
Jul.23.2009 Equality For All - OMB Instructs Agencies To Ignore GAO And Give Equal Consideration To Three SBA Programs
Jul.17.2009 FCA Treble Damages Awarded For Grant Fraudulently Induced, Despite Successful Performance
Jul.15.2009 Administration To Begin E-Verify Enforcement On September 8, 2009
Jul.10.2009 Defacto Debarment: Broad Contracting Prohibitions For Many Expatriate Corporations
Jul.08.2009 Fraud Or Indiscretion? It Depends Who You Are
Jul.06.2009 Elimination of Price Reduction Clause and Other Recommendations by MAS Panel
Jun.30.2009 Boards' CDA Jurisdiction Does Not Extend To Third-Party Beneficiaries
Jun.23.2009 Treasury Issues Compensation Standards For TARP Participants
Jun.12.2009 U.S. Not A "Party" To Whistleblower Cases When It Has Not Intervened, Supreme Court Says
Jun.11.2009 A-12 Default Affirmed
Jun.08.2009 E-Verify Enforcement Suspended Until September 2009
Jun.04.2009 Inexact IDIQ Exercise = Constructive Change
Jun.02.2009 GAO Bites Agency On Corrective Action Discussions
May.28.2009 Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Contracting
May.26.2009 Congress Clamps Down On OCIs & Competition For DoD Major Systems
May.21.2009 Unfortunate Change To Settlement Fees And Costs Allowability Law
May.19.2009 Congress Amends False Claims Act
May.06.2009 Federal Circuit Reaffirms Deferential OCI Standard
May.04.2009 No Small Business Set-Asides For FSS Purchases
Apr.22.2009 Public-Private Partnerships On The Rise
Apr.17.2009 Crystal-Ball Jurisprudence Critiqued
Apr.16.2009 Beware of Noncompliance With Price Reduction Clause Requirements
Apr.13.2009 Fourth Circuit Rules In Custer Battles
Apr.03.2009 Recovery Act CRIB Sheet For Government Contractors, Part II, The Interim FAR
Mar.31.2009 House Hammers Hubzone Program
Mar.26.2009 Agency Acceptably Disqualifies Offeror For Refusal To Wall Off Employee
Mar.24.2009 DCAA "Independence"
Mar.19.2009 Recourse For Negative Past Performance Evaluation
Mar.16.2009 E-Mails Regarding Competitor's Responsibility Not Releasable Under FOIA
Mar.06.2009 Agency's Corrective Action Based Upon GAO Recommendation Reasonable
Mar.04.2009 President Focuses On "Cleaning Up" Federal Contracting
Mar.03.2009 Fraudulent Claim Gets The Triple Whammy
Feb.26.2009 Stimulus Act Crib Sheet for Government Contractors
Feb.25.2009 Buy American Provisions of Stimulus Act
Feb.24.2009 B&P Costs Plus Injunctive Relief Permitted
Feb.03.2009 Obama Moves Out On The Union Front
Jan.23.2009 Clearing The Decks--FAR Council Finally Issues COTS Waivers Mandated By Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996
Jan.16.2009 More Confusion On What Costs Are Allocable To Government Contracts
Jan.14.2009 Must DOJ Intervene In Qui Tam Cases Within 60 Days After The Case Is Filed?
Jan.13.2009 GAO Sends Agency Back To The Drawing Board -- Again
Jan.07.2009 Fasten Your Seatbelts -- Bumpy Road Ahead
Jan.05.2009 Iraq Delays Enforcement Of Certain Laws
Jan.02.2009 Tech Bundling Justified For Emergency Situations
Dec.16.2008 The Status Of Forces: Largely Uncertain
Nov.24.2008 Successful Protest Leads To Award
Nov.20.2008 Mandatory Disclosure Is The New Reality
Nov.14.2008 E-Verify -- Immigration Enforcement Comes to Federal Contracting
Nov.06.2008 DOD's Affirmative Action Program Unconstitutional
Nov.03.2008 CFC Gives CICA Its Bite
Oct.29.2008 Contingency Contractor Beware
Oct.21.2008 "Rule of Two" For Small Business Set-Asides Extended to Award of Task and Delivery Orders
Oct.17.2008 Government Procurement Is Going Green
Oct.15.2008 Protestor Bags Redo and B&P Costs, Too
Oct.13.2008 CAS Pension Requirements In The Market Meltdown
Oct.07.2008 SBA Issues Final Rule On WOSB Contracting Program But Has Yet To Identify Eligible Industries
Oct.02.2008 Alternative Procurement Yields Protestor Bid Preparation Costs
Sep.25.2008 Competitive Range Of One Gets Close Scrutiny
Sep.22.2008 OCI Exclusion Without Notice Denies Due Process
Aug.29.2008 CFC Has "Pre-Procurement" Protest Jurisdiction
Aug.21.2008 Parent's No-Debarment Agreement Doesn't Stop CO Finding Sub Lacks Integrity
Aug.08.2008 Customs Proposes To Substantially Transform The Substantial Transformation Test
Jul.23.2008 More Disclosure Proposed -- And Not By The Government
Jul.16.2008 DOJ Offers Last-Minute Criticism of The False Claims Act Correction Act of 2007
Jul.15.2008 Post Hoc Explanation Inadequate To Save Unreasonable Price Evaluation
Jul.03.2008 All Those Disclosure Requirements -- They Just Keep Coming
Jul.01.2008 OGE Issues Final Rule On Post-Employment Conflict Of Interest Restrictions
Jun.26.2008 Crowell & Moring Once Again Rated Leading Government Contracts Firm
Jun.24.2008 GAO Blasts Faulty Past Performance Evaluation
Jun.20.2008 Congress Has A "Heart"?
Jun.19.2008 Tanker Award Tanked
Jun.17.2008 New Protest Jurisdiction at GAO
Jun.11.2008 Government Contractors Must Use E-Verify
Jun.10.2008 Subcontractor Must Intend That Government Pay False Claim Submitted To Prime, Supreme Court Rules
Jun.03.2008 Supremes Allow Paralegal Fees Recovery At Market Rates
May.28.2008 Task Order Protest as Breach at The ASBCA
May.20.2008 Flawed Pension Cost Decision Is Reversed - But Why?
May.16.2008 Scope of Proposed Rule on Self-Reporting is Expanded and Would Also Require Self-Reporting of FCA Violations and Contract Overpayments
May.13.2008 DFARS Excessive Pass-Through Cost Rule Modified
May.09.2008 Agency's Preclusionary (And Erroneous) "Revolving Door" Advice Provides Pre-Award Bid Protest Standing
May.06.2008 No Prime Liability = No Pass-Through
Apr.30.2008 "//signed//" Doesn't Cut It
Apr.25.2008 Federal Taxes, Contractor Responsibility, and Suspension and Debarment
Apr.21.2008 Beware The Cooperative Agreement
Apr.16.2008 Mandatory Disclosure And Cooperation To Be Proposed For Commercial Item And Overseas Contractors
Apr.09.2008 GAO To Staff New Contract Appeals Board
Apr.03.2008 GAO Repeats Protective Order Warning
Mar.10.2008 CFC Faults GSA's False Statistical Precision In Major Evaluation
Mar.05.2008 Court Of Federal Claims Examines Contracting Authority
Feb.28.2008 Stay Tuned For Likely Changes In False Claims Law
Feb.27.2008 TSA Back Under The Thumb off FAR and CICA
Feb.21.2008 Go Ahead and Offer the Senator a Cup of Coffee - Senate Gift Rules Don't Require You to Be Rude, Just Stingy
Feb.21.2008 Go Ahead and Offer the Senator a Cup of Coffee
Feb.05.2008 GAO Slams Protestor For Protective Order Violation
Jan.30.2008 Line Item Prices Still Exempt Under FOIA
Jan.22.2008 Crossing The Threshold
Jan.17.2008 Potential OCI Short-Circuits Sole-Source Award
Jan.08.2008 Supreme Court Strictly Enforces CFC Statute Of Limitation
Jan.02.2008 SBA Proposes Set-Aside Rules For Women-Owned Small Businesses
Dec.21.2007 Happy Holidays From The Far Council -- Proposed Restrictions On Allowable Airfare
Dec.10.2007 Latest DoD "Reform" Act Is Far-Reaching
Dec.04.2007 Be Certain of The Sum Certain
Nov.26.2007 Déjà Vu: Another FAR Rule On Contractor Codes Of Business Ethics And Conduct
Nov.16.2007 Contractor Socked For Double And Treble Damages
Nov.14.2007 DOJ Would Mandate Contractor Compliance Programs And Self-Reporting
Nov.13.2007 FAR Integrated With Safety Act
Nov.12.2007 Agency's Stafford Act Interpretation Rejected
Nov.05.2007 Assembly In US Does Not Unlock TAA Procurement Door For Padlocks Made From Chinese Parts
Oct.30.2007 False Claims Act - Supreme Court Will Review Allison
Oct.26.2007 DOD Suspensions and Debarments Are Dramatically Up: Check Your Compliance Program
Oct.17.2007 Court Explores New Frontier On The OCI Front
Oct.15.2007 Interest Paid Is Recoverable In Damages
Sep.27.2007 Congressional Sledgehammer Drops On DHS Cyber Insecurity
Sep.19.2007 Little Dab of Fraud Will Do Ya (In)
Sep.14.2007 Gotta Give A Guy A Fair Chance On The Redo
Sep.05.2007 Court Dumps CICA Stay Override
Aug.31.2007 Compound Interest On CAS
Aug.22.2007 State Slammed For Adopting GAO Recommendation
Aug.20.2007 Congress Hammers TSA Exemption From FAR
Aug.03.2007 SBA Proposes To Relax Employee-Based Size Standard
Aug.01.2007 Civil FCA Relator Fees Are Deductible
Jul.30.2007 Strong Mitigating Factors Trump Debarment
Jul.06.2007 CAS Exemption For Time & Material And Labor Hour Contracts
Jul.05.2007 Further Progress On What Used To Be The Berry Amendment
Jul.03.2007 CAS-covered Contract Not "Affected" By Accounting Change
Jun.27.2007 New Timeliness Rule Sinks Ferry’s Protest
Jun.18.2007 Board Finds Liability For Constructive Receipt of Pension Plan Assets at Plan Merger
Jun.14.2007 CAS Board Adjusts Coverage Threshold
Jun.12.2007 Ambiguous Instructions Give Disqualified Offeror A Second Chance
Jun.08.2007 IRS Mandates Audit of Deductibility of Settlements
Jun.06.2007 GAO Teaches Course in Cost Realism 101
May.11.2007 "Yardstick" Measures Failure to Progress in A-12 Default Termination
Apr.30.2007 Limitation on Mark-Up of Subcontractor Costs
Apr.25.2007 Bad Faith Conduct Pervades Contract
Apr.24.2007 Patent Case Has Implications For Contract Interpretation
Apr.16.2007 Decision Signals Increased SBA Scrutiny of Size Status
Apr.10.2007 GAO And SBA Disagree on Effect of Noncompliance With Subcontracting Limitation
Apr.04.2007 Government Auditor Cannot Qualify As An Original Source
Apr.02.2007 Supreme Court Deals Set-Back To Whistleblowers
Mar.28.2007 Supreme Court Resolves “Original Source” Issue
Mar.26.2007 CFC Sets Out Contract Interpretation Standards
Mar.16.2007 Government Not Immune To E-Discovery Costs
Mar.06.2007 ASBCA Reconsiders CAS 418 Definition Of "Homogeneous Cost Pools"
Feb.16.2007 Proposed Far Rule Would Require Many Federal Contractors And Subcontractors To Adopt Ethics Program
Feb.02.2007 Federal Supply Schedules Opened To State And Local Governments For Recovery Purchasing
Jan.29.2007 Award Fee Determination Must Be Made By Designated Official
Jan.17.2007 Imminent Qualification As Source Must Be Considered By Agency
Jan.12.2007 Federal Circuit Opens Split Over Paralegal Reimbursement Under EAJA
Jan.04.2007 Court Opens Third Party's Files To Aid Private International Arbitration
Dec.29.2006 During Bid Protest Stay Agency Should Have Terminated Award To Large Business Following SBA Size Decision
Dec.27.2006 Department Of Justice Issues Updated Guidelines For Corporate Prosecution
Dec.21.2006 Government Seeks To Push Defective Pricing Into Twilight Zone
Dec.20.2006 What The Far Council Giveth The Dar Council Taketh Away
Dec.14.2006 Private Party MEO Teammate Allowed Intervention To Protect Proprietary Information
Dec.12.2006 SBA Modifies Time At Which Size Status Is Determined
Dec.07.2006 Proof Of Actual Bias Not Required To Show Conflict Of Interest
Dec.07.2006 Preliminary Observations About DOD Class Deviation for Specialty Metals
Dec.05.2006 Supreme Court To Decide Who Qualifies As An "Original Source"
Nov.28.2006 Lost Profits Available For Long-Term Contract Breach
Nov.21.2006 Government's Complaints-In-Intervention Do Not Relate Back To Qui Tam Complaint
Nov.16.2006 RFP Must State Whether Or Not Subcontractor Past Performance Will Be Considered
Nov.14.2006 Court Re-Affirms Rule On CDA Interest
Nov.09.2006 On Time Means On Time
Oct.25.2006 Cyber Barbarians & Federal Data Breaches In 2006
Oct.19.2006 Misleading Discussions Can Be With Awardee
Oct.12.2006 No Longer The Berry Amendment But Worse
Oct.06.2006 Congress Pressures DHS To Expedite Safety Act Approvals
Oct.04.2006 It Doesn't Have To Be Fancy
Sep.29.2006 Base And Option Years Unit Pricing Not Releasable Under FOIA
Sep.19.2006 Protest Sustained Because Agency Unreasonably Evaluated Weaknesses In Protester's Proposal
Sep.15.2006 Limitations Of Cost Notice Obligations Must Be Met
Sep.13.2006 Services In Contract Don't Trump "Non-Manufacturer Rule"
Sep.12.2006 T4C, IDIQ Clauses Are No Safe Harbor Against Breach Damages
Sep.06.2006 Government Meets Its Waterloo In The Great Engine War
Aug.29.2006 Option Exercise Not Fully Discretionary
Aug.24.2006 The Federal Circuit Confirms Proper SCA Price Adjustments
Aug.21.2006 False Invoices Under CPA Contract Not False Claims "Presented" To U.S. Government
Aug.18.2006 DOD Scales Back Proposed Export Control Compliance Clauses
Aug.17.2006 “Page-Count" Method Supports Claim For Reimbursement Of Protest Costs
Aug.11.2006 "The New Contract Is Better" Isn't A Justification
Aug.11.2006 NASA Proposes Cyber Lock-Down On Contractors
Aug.08.2006 GAO Faults Army For Failure To Pursue Certificate Of Competency
Aug.04.2006 Request For Clarification Amounts To Discussions
Aug.01.2006 Board Wields Sanctions To Enforce CDA Subpoena Against DOJ
Jul.27.2006 Crowell & Moring Rated Leading Government Contracts Firm
Jul.25.2006 Changing Court Rules Signal Changing Court
Jul.19.2006 Cyberthreats & Homeland Security: Stopping A Digital Pearl Harbor
Jun.20.2006 Government In Jurisdictional Pickle Over Reverse-False-Claims Action For Unpaid Customs Duties
Jun.16.2006 Contracting Authority Analyzed In 3 Cases
Jun.13.2006 Restricted Recompetition Given Close Scrutiny
Jun.08.2006 Sample Tasks Must Be Reasonable Proxy For Entire Contract
Jun.06.2006 Order Of Precedence Clause Gets Boost
Jun.02.2006 Lack Of Experience Can Be Cured
Jun.01.2006 You Win Some/You Lose Some
May.30.2006 You Makes Your Choice And Takes Your Chances
May.25.2006 Seminar On Teaming And Joint Ventures
May.23.2006 ASBCA Applies Affirmative Misconduct Standard In Denying Contractor's Estoppel Defense
May.19.2006 CMS Loses Medicare Protest Under New Competitive Procedures
May.16.2006 Seminar On Improving Past Performance Evaluations
May.11.2006 You Must Ante Up To Play In The Game
May.10.2006 The Global Collision Of Privacy & Homeland Security
May.08.2006 Declaratory Judgment Actions Examined
May.03.2006 DOE Solution To Underfunded Pension Plans: Don't Pay For Them
May.01.2006 Jurisdiction Found Over 85-804 Indemnification Clause Breach Claims
Apr.25.2006 Too Bad, So Sad
Apr.21.2006 Battlefield Contractors Need Federal Forum For Tort Claims
Apr.19.2006 New Electronic Discovery Rules Approved
Apr.14.2006 CAS Offsets Permitted Among Different Contract Types
Apr.12.2006 Contradictory Technical And Cost Evaluations Don't Add Up
Apr.10.2006 Top Congressional Staffers Speak on Homeland Security – April 12th
Apr.03.2006 Breach Of Good Faith Doesn't Require Malice
Mar.31.2006 CAS Coverage And Indirect Costs
Mar.27.2006 But Judge, That Was Only What We Said To Congress
Mar.21.2006 Past Performance Formula For Disaster
Mar.15.2006 Can Employee Releases Bar False Claims Act Actions?
Mar.13.2006 Rep. Hunter Steals Page From NISPOM Play Book (Literally)
Mar.08.2006 Union Obtains Protest Relief In District Court
Mar.06.2006 Offeror's Flip-Flop On Berry Amendment Compliance Dooms Award
Mar.02.2006 DOD Issues Final Rule Re Criminal Jurisdiction Over Employees Of Battlefield Contractors
Mar.01.2006 Report Highlights Problematic Katrina Contracting Practices
Feb.28.2006 Report Highlights Problematic Katrina Contracting Practices
Feb.24.2006 Chutzpah Goes Unrewarded
Feb.23.2006 Overhead Pool Flunks "Homogeneity" Test Absent "Benefit" To The Government
Feb.21.2006 Public Disclosure Of "Industry-Wide" Overbilling Practice Bars Qui Tam Suit Based Upon Similar But Undisclosed Fraudulent Transactions
Feb.17.2006 Failure To Update Invalidates Evaluation And Responsibility Determination
Feb.15.2006 GSA "Invites" Schedule Contractors To Examine Origin Of Offered Products
Feb.14.2006 When It Sounds Too Good To Be True, It Usually Is
Feb.13.2006 OCI Mitigation Doesn't Go Far Enough
Feb.10.2006 No Out-Of-Pockets, No Interest
Feb.08.2006 Bad Alchemy: Turning Estimates Into Fraud
Feb.06.2006 Unequal Price Discussions Sink Award
Feb.02.2006 Plain Meaning Of Statute Restricts Competition
Jan.30.2006 Termination Clause Trumps Cost-Sharing
Jan.27.2006 FY05 Protestors Achieve Effective Relief 37% Of Time At GAO
Jan.26.2006 OFCCP Moves To Eliminate Burdensome EO Survey
Jan.23.2006 Termination Clause Trumps Cost-Sharing
Jan.18.2006 Mitigation Plan Doesn't Always Heal OCI
Jan.09.2006 French Corporate Environment Not So Whistleblower-Friendly
Jan.05.2006 "Presentment" Defense Rejected In Medicare FCA Case
Jan.03.2006 Pitiful Price Evaluation Unfairly Caters To Certain Bidders
Dec.30.2005 Collateral Contracts Rule Explained
Dec.28.2005 Presolicitation Statements Not Dispositive Of Whether Mod Is Beyond Scope
Dec.21.2005 All Similar Past Performance Scores Are Not Comparable
Dec.20.2005 False Claim Need Not Be "Presented" By Defendant
Dec.19.2005 Unfair Disqualification Results In Reinstatement
Dec.15.2005 Subway Wins Latest Round Of 15-Year Construction Litigation Saga
Dec.13.2005 Design Effort Explicitly Excluded From Commercial Contract Work Qualified As IR&D
Dec.08.2005 Sole-Source Protest Win Nets Only Protest Costs
Nov.21.2005 Technical Data Rights Decision Blurs Issues
Nov.18.2005 Past Performance Remains Fertile Ground For Protest Challenges
Nov.09.2005 Stay of FSS Procurement Requires Prompt Action
Nov.09.2005 False Eligibility Application For Grant May Violate FCA
Nov.07.2005 Attention To Small Business Subcontracting Plan Is No Small Matter
Nov.01.2005 USPS Auction Crash Lands
Oct.31.2005 Davis-Bacon Act Reinstated
Oct.27.2005 Court Enforces 50% Labor Value Rule
Oct.25.2005 "Plain Meaning" In The Federal Circuit
Oct.19.2005 Administrative Leave OK If Feds Gave It Too
Oct.18.2005 Agency Playing Favorites Leads To Bad Faith Termination
Oct.14.2005 DoD Relaxes Cost Rules For Katrina Donated Leave
Oct.12.2005 OFCCP Issues "Internet Applicant" Definition
Oct.10.2005 DoJ “FOIA Post” Demonstrates Continued Policy To Disclose Unit Pricing
Oct.05.2005 OMB Reverses $250,000 Micropurchase Cap
Oct.04.2005 Contractors Must Check Everywhere "Reasonable" On FedBizOpps
Sep.30.2005 "Certain" Means No Weasel Words
Sep.27.2005 GSBCA Rejects GSA's Defective Pricing Allegations
Sep.20.2005 Evaluation Backup Gets Hard Look
Sep.08.2005 The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming!
Sep.06.2005 Emergency Procurements In Support Of Hurricane Katrina Relief
Aug.18.2005 Cancellation Of RFP Upended
Aug.12.2005 Corrective Action Needs Correcting
Aug.09.2005 CPA Procurements Subject to Civil False Claims Act
Aug.04.2005 Court of International Trade Takes Jurisdiction Over Civil FCA Case
Aug.02.2005 Insurance Commission Split Is Kickback
Jul.29.2005 Travel Expense Rebates And Incentives Result In $40 Million FCA Settlement
Jul.28.2005 Later Reg Trumps Contract Clause Again
Jul.22.2005 False Estimates: A Misguided Notion Under The FCA
Jul.14.2005 Court Limits Good Faith Presumptions Of Government
Jul.12.2005 It's July In Washington So Lets Publish Some Export Control Regulations
Jul.12.2005 Constitutionality Of SDB Preference Still Undecided
Jul.08.2005 Closing A Business Unit Creates An Opportunity To Recover Unfunded Pension Costs
Jul.06.2005 Subs: Don't Forget The Disputes Clause
Jun.27.2005 States’ Statutes Of Limitations Apply To Federal FCA Retaliation Claims
Jun.22.2005 Relaxation Of Requirements = Out-Of-Scope Mod
Jun.20.2005 Crowell & Moring Rated Leading Government Contracts Firm
Jun.16.2005 Potential Loss Of Workforce Supports Incumbent's Injunction
Jun.09.2005 June 8 FAC Confirms FAR Changes
Jun.07.2005 Privacy Perils Loom For DHS Contractors
Jun.01.2005 "Piggy-Backer" Falls at GAO
May.27.2005 Unhealthy Business Practices Overseas Infect Health Care Companies
May.25.2005 Don't Assume That A Debriefing Is Continuing After The Initial Session
May.20.2005 Contractor Must Actually Receive Final Decision To Start The Clock
May.10.2005 DoD Issues Final Rule About Contractor Personnel In The Battlefield
May.01.2005 Postal Service Adopts New “Best Commercial Practices” Acquisition Rules
Apr.26.2005 Federal Circuit Clarifies Prejudice Review In Bid Protest Cases
Apr.18.2005 Agency Can't Ignore Obvious Costs In Evaluation
Apr.13.2005 Defense Base Closure Process Launched
Apr.12.2005 Court Tackles Hubzone Issues In Two Cases
Apr.07.2005 "Disparate Impact" Theory Available In Age Discrimination Cases
Apr.04.2005 Contractors Must Go The Extra Mile For Preaward Review
Apr.01.2005 Veterans' Preference Comes Of Age
Mar.24.2005 A Sewer By Any Other Name Would Smell As Foul
Mar.23.2005 Court Applies Totten Reasoning To Subcontractor Liability Under FCA
Mar.22.2005 Using Available Funds For Other Purposes No Excuse For Breach
Mar.17.2005 Commercial Items Rulemaking Tackles Hot Issues
Mar.16.2005 Substantial Changes To CAS Administration Regulations
Mar.11.2005 No Past Performance = Neutral, Not Negative
Mar.04.2005 Punctilious Performance Required For Recovery
Mar.03.2005 Similar State FCA Allegations Yield Mixed Results
Mar.01.2005 GAO Finds Druyun Contracts Flawed
Feb.23.2005 "National Security" Limits Judicial Review Of CICA Stay Override
Feb.14.2005 Unicor Banned From Competing In Small Business Set Asides For Services
Feb.09.2005 Undocumented Clarifications Mean Undone State Award
Feb.07.2005 A GSA Schedule Buy Must Be All Schedule
Feb.04.2005 DSCA Relaxes Contingent Fee Limitation On FMF Contracts
Feb.02.2005 Contractor Wins Defective Pricing Battle In Great Engine War
Jan.21.2005 DAM Contractor's Underbidding Insufficient For FCA Liability
Jan.07.2005 GAO Scallops Procurement, Finding Solicitation Was Flaky
Jan.05.2005 No Match, No Deal In FSS Buy
Dec.16.2004 Court Cuts Back FCA Coverage For Medicaid Fraud
Dec.06.2004 R-E-V-I-E-W Does Not Spell R-E-L-I-E-F
Nov.03.2004 Even Short Contract Extensions Require Updated Service Contract Act Wages
Nov.01.2004 Court Reviews Past Performance Evaluation On Existing Contract
Oct.26.2004 Partial Termination Doesn't Allow Repricing In Commercial Services Contract
Oct.20.2004 GAO Sustains For Failure To Set Aside For Small Business
Oct.14.2004 Divided Federal Circuit Disallows Recovery Of Interest As Damages
Oct.07.2004 Agency Liable For Negligent Estimate In LOE Contract
Oct.07.2004 Risk Of Accepting Out-Of-Scope Task/Delivery Orders Gets Greater
Oct.01.2004 False Statement Liability Involving Federal Grantees Curtailed Again
Sep.29.2004 A Day Early Is Too Late
Sep.17.2004 Split D.C. Circuit Limits False Claims Act Liability Under Federal Grants
Sep.14.2004 Agency Must Discuss Evaluated Weaknesses
Sep.10.2004 GAO Finds "Classic Example" Of Impaired Objectivity OCI
Sep.07.2004 ASBCA Declares Material Breach, Allows Contractor To Stop Work
Aug.26.2004 The Long Tail Of Government Contracts
Aug.23.2004 Cardinal Change In MOD Requires Competition
Aug.16.2004 A-76 Mix And Match Faulted By GAO
Aug.02.2004 SDB Preference Constitutional
Jul.30.2004 LOC Clause Applies To Each Delivery Order, Not Full Contract
Jul.30.2004 T4D Slam Dunked To T4C When Contractor Misled
Jul.30.2004 CO'S Opinion Due No Deference On Statutory Application
Jul.30.2004 B&P Costs Don't Include Sub Costs Or Profit
Jun.30.2004 GAO Finds Discussions Were Not Meaningful And, In Fact, Misleading
Jun.30.2004 As He Exits, Bremer Leaves Contractors With Limited Immunity From Iraqi Law
Jun.09.2004 COFC Denies Protest But Notes Possible Procurement Integrity And Antitrust Violations
Jun.09.2004 NRO Prohibits Exclusive Teaming Agreements
May.26.2004 Declaratory Relief Available For NAFI Contractor At Board
May.21.2004 For Iraq War Items Sole Source Award, COFC Grants Limited Injunctive Relief Despite OCI And CICA Violations
May.19.2004 Safety Act Red Tape Wins The First Round: Applications 19 -- Approvals 0
May.19.2004 GAO Dismisses Subcontract Protest
May.10.2004 Contracting Officer's Final Decision Not Afforded RES Judicata Status
May.10.2004 Fourth Circuit Extends Time For Retaliation Claims
May.10.2004 Employee Unions And Elected Representatives Lack Standing For GAO Protests Of Private Sector Awards In A-76 Competitions
May.10.2004 COFC Reverses Another Cica Stay Override
Apr.28.2004 Employee Unions And Elected Representatives Lack Standing For GAO Protests Of Private Sector Awards In A-76 Competitions
Apr.27.2004 Agency Reasonably Distrusts Its Own Estimates
Apr.18.2004 SBA Size Standards Revised To Cap Number Of Employees
Apr.10.2004 IT Encryption Certificate Required By The DOD
Mar.22.2004 GAO Protest Jurisdiction Covers Concession Contracts
Mar.10.2004 Navy Pays Lost Profits For Misappropriating FSS Contractor's Data
Mar.04.2004 When Does An Oral Presentation Become A "Discussion"?
Mar.01.2004 Fourth Circuit Affirms Award By Interstate Compact
Feb.26.2004 Intentional Low Bid Is Not A False Claim
Feb.18.2004 Army Can't Bypass Competition Without Court Scrutiny
Feb.13.2004 Contractor Wins Directed Award In A-76 Protest
Feb.12.2004 Proposed NRO Clause Would Require Broad Disclosure -- Comments Due Tomorrow
Feb.09.2004 Defense Contractors Begin To Feel Effect Of DoD Requirement To Provide Unique Item Identifiers And Unit Cost Information
Feb.04.2004 Fifth Circuit Reaffirms Breadth Of FCPA's Anti-Bribery Provisions
Feb.02.2004 Congress Sends Mixed Signals On Buy American Requirements
Jan.28.2004 CFC Requires Strict Adherence To FAR’s Data Rights Clause
Jan.20.2004 White House Will Screen Appointees Seeking Outside Employment
Jan.15.2004 Expert Advice -- Caveat Emptor
Jan.08.2004 Fourth Circuit Interprets Corporate Knowledge And Materiality Under FCA
Jan.07.2004 Proposed Federal Guidelines For Compliance Programs Published For Comment
Jan.06.2004 Government Liable For Foreign Sub's Patent Infringement
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