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Agency Can't Ignore Obvious Costs In Evaluation

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 04.18.05

While agencies are given latitude in establishing evaluation criteria, an agency cannot rationally fail to include costs it knows will be involved in the procurement. The Court of Federal Claims in Arch Chemicals, Inc. v. U.S. (Mar. 18, 2005) instructed that the agency unreasonably excluded from the evaluation plant shutdown costs it was obligated to pay the incumbent if it awarded to another company.

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Client Alert | 5 min read | 03.30.26

The EU Pharma Package: The Transferable Exclusivity Voucher Compromise Proposal

In our third alert in this EU Pharma Package Series, we provided a detailed overview of the diverging positions of the European Commission, the European Parliament , and the Council of the European Union on the transferable exclusivity voucher (TEV) for priority antimicrobials....