Congress Hammers TSA Exemption From FAR
Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 08.20.07
In hearings on August 1 before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Management, Investigations, and Oversight, David Bodenheimer testified that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) should be stripped of its exemptions from the Competition in Contracting Act (CICA) and Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) in order to bolster competition, reduce regulatory fragmentation, and open TSA procurements to protests and Contract Disputes Act litigation applicable to other agencies. On the next day, the House introduced a bill that, in conjunction with a pending Senate amendment, would bring TSA back into the acquisition mainstream.
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Client Alert | 4 min read | 10.30.26
Recent sustain decisions by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) in Fluor Federal Solutions, LLC and Reliance Test & Technology send a clear message: when an agency tries to fix a Procurement Integrity Act (PIA) violation by committing a second one, the cure can be just as fatal as the disease. The cases involved the U.S. Air Force’s $1.8 billion procurement for O&M services at Elgin Air Force Base. During discussions, the Air Force inadvertently released a pricing overview slide with all offerors’ bottom-line evaluated costs to Reliance Test & Technology, which immediately notified the agency of the error. In response, the Air Force decided to level the playing field by providing the same information to all the other offerors in the procurement, stating, “[o]fferors may consider this disclosure in their [final proposal revision].”
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