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Ambiguous Instructions Give Disqualified Offeror A Second Chance

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 06.12.07

The Court of Federal Claims in Heritage of Am., LLC v. U.S. (May 31, 2007) set aside a disqualification of an offeror when the solicitation instructions were unclear about the coverage and labor rates required in the multiple regions solicited, requiring a recompetition with unambiguous instructions. In the prior, related GAO protest, GAO had refused to consider this issue because it was "untimely," but Judge George Miller in this opinion joins the solid majority of the CFC judges holding that GAO timeliness requirements are inapplicable in court protests.

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Client Alert | 7 min read | 01.13.26

New rules in relation to work incapacity Strengthened Return-to-Work Policy and Reintegration Trajectory 3.0: What Changes as of 1 January 2026

On 30 December 2025, the Belgian Official Gazette published the Act of 19 December 2025 implementing a strengthened return-to-work policy in case of work incapacity, and the Royal Decree of 17 December 2025 amending the Code of Well-being at Work, commonly referred to as "Reintegration Trajectory 3.0"....