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PODCAST: Announcing Crowell & Moring’s Regulatory Forecast 2018

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 03.01.18

On February 28, Crowell & Moring published its fourth annual Regulatory Forecast, exploring how technology is driving the future of business across industries – and how Washington, as well as state and global regulators, is forging the appropriate balance between fostering innovation and protecting consumers.

The publication’s editors, Richard Lehfeldt and Dan Wolff, both partners in the firm’s Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, sat down to discuss the forecast. In this 8 minute podcast, Richard and Dan discuss what you will find in our Regulatory Forecast 2018, including both topics and authors new to the forecast this year.

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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].”...