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Introducing Crowell & Moring’s Government Contractor Recovery Practice Performance Review Offering (PRO)

Client Alert | 1 min read | 03.16.17

The Government Contracts Group of Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce its Government Contractor Recovery Practice, focused on recovery opportunities for our clients in in the government contracting industry. Our team consists of experienced and highly skilled attorney and non-attorney government contract management professionals who stand ready to assist clients with identifying and pursuing claims based on a variety of contractual theories – including REAs and claims to recover (i) increased performance costs attributable to Government action or delay, (ii) costs resulting from Government-initiated contract termination, (iii) costs of remediating certain environmental pollution and toxic tort litigation covered by certain indemnification clauses, and (iv) other costs to which contractors are entitled by operation of contract or statute. Our Performance Review Offering (PRO) allows, at your request, our team of experienced Crowell & Moring attorneys to provide a “diagnostic” review of the relevant documentation on your contract or program and make a recommendation regarding whether or not to pursue a claim; we can also discuss alternative fee arrangements, including risk-sharing, full and partial contingency arrangements.

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Client Alert | 4 min read | 10.30.26

Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right: GAO Sustains Protest Where Agency Tried to Fix PIA Violation with a Second PIA Violation

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].”...