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B&P Costs Don't Include Sub Costs Or Profit

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 07.30.04

In Gentex Corp. v. U.S. (June 10, 2004), the Court of Federal Claims decided two issues of first impression for the court adversely to the contractor: (1) even when a solicitation specifically requests teams to respond, the B&P costs of teammates of the prime are not recoverable unless they are in a joint venture or in some other way are prime contractors themselves and (2) profit is not recoverable on the contractor's costs.

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Client Alert | 3 min read | 08.03.26

New Jersey Takes Aim at Algorithmic and Surveillance Pricing: What Landlords and Retailers Need to Know About the FAIR Act and the Fair Price Protection Act

On July 20, 2026, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill signed the Forbidding the Algorithmic Inflation of Rent (FAIR) Act into law, making New Jersey the fourth state to regulate algorithmic rent-setting practices. Three days later, on July 23, 2026, Governor Sherrill signed the Fair Price Protection Act, which targets “surveillance pricing”—the practice of using or collecting personal data about a user and using an algorithm or artificial intelligence to charge different consumers different prices for the same products. Together, these laws represent a significant expansion of New Jersey's consumer protection framework in the algorithmic pricing context....