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Offerors Now Must Disclose Information about Owners, Subsidiaries, and Predecessors

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 03.09.16

On March 7, 2016, the FAR Council issued a final rule that requires offerors to disclose within the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System any immediate owner or subsidiary and all predecessors of an offeror that held a federal contract or grant within the last three years. The final rule is designed to provide COs with a “more comprehensive understanding of the performance and integrity of the corporation before awarding a Federal contract . . .,” and it may also affect how contractors draft their proposals to explain their corporate family trees.

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Client Alert | 2 min read | 12.19.25

GAO Cautions Agencies—Over-Redact at Your Own Peril

Bid protest practitioners in recent years have witnessed agencies’ increasing efforts to limit the production of documents and information in response to Government Accountability Office (GAO) bid protests—often will little pushback from GAO. This practice has underscored the notable difference in the scope of bid protest records before GAO versus the Court of Federal Claims. However, in Tiger Natural Gas, Inc., B-423744, Dec. 10, 2025, 2025 CPD ¶ __, GAO made clear that there are limits to the scope of redactions, and GAO will sustain a protest where there is insufficient evidence that the agency’s actions were reasonable....