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Lack of Documented Award Defeats Discussions with Putative Awardee

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 03.02.16

In SRA Int’l, Inc. (released last week), although the solicitation allowed the government to negotiate a final reduced price with the prospective awardee after it had been selected for award, GSA conducted discussions with the eventual awardee before documenting any best value determination and before the evaluations were even finalized. Because GSA did not conduct discussions with any other offerors, GAO held that the discussions were unequal and recommended that GSA go back, establish a competitive range, and open discussions with all remaining offerors.

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Client Alert | 7 min read | 05.19.26

American and Allied Cyber Agencies Issue First Joint Guidance on Securing Agentic AI

On May 1, 2026, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), the Australian Cyber Security Centre, the UK National Cyber Security Centre, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, and the New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre, published joint guidance on the “Careful Adoption of Agentic AI Services” (Guidance). ...