"The New Contract Is Better" Isn't A Justification
Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 08.11.06
The Court of Federal Claims in Advanced Systems Dev., Inc. v. U.S. (July 28, 2006) reinforced that an agency cannot justify the override of a CICA stay while a protest is pending at GAO by packaging reasons that amount to no more than the new contract will be better than the current situation. Moreover, the court rebuffed the agency's attempt to add reasons for the override and make the justification statement an "evolving" document during litigation.
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Client Alert | 4 min read | 11.10.26
D.C. District Court Upholds CMS’s 2020 Organ Procurement Rule
It’s been about a month since the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida upheld the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s (CMS) final rule governing organ procurement organizations (OPM). (See our previous Client Alert here.) The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia followed suit. In contrast to the Florida decision, the D.C. decision was brief and to the point. The rule establishes a competitive model for classifying OPOs under the following three tiers.
Client Alert | 8 min read | 11.10.26
EU Simplifies Rules on Defense Procurement and Transfers of Defense-Related Products
Client Alert | 3 min read | 11.09.26
Client Alert | 4 min read | 11.09.26
