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Court Tells Agency To Address Illicit Advantage In Recompetition

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 12.02.05

In Beta Analytics Int'l, Inc. v. U.S. (Nov. 23, 2005), the Court of Federal Claims wrestles with the situation of having found the initial procurement decision to be unlawful but not having stopped the process, which allowed the competitor to take over the job and hire away many of the protestor-incumbent's key employees. The court ordered the Navy (a) not to exercise the option years and (b) to mitigate the unlawful advantage through its evaluation methodology for the reprocurement.

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Client Alert | 13 min read | 06.12.26

EU Cyber Resilience Act Countdown: 11 September 2026 Incident/Vulnerability Reporting Deadline Less Than 100 Days Away

The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is an EU product cybersecurity law for connected products (formally, “products with digital elements” under the CRA) commercialized in the EU; it entered into force on 10 December 2024, with direct application across the EU. Full application begins 11 December 2027, but one of its most operationally demanding provisions takes effect in just under 100 days, on 11 September 2026: the mandatory vulnerability and incident reporting under Article 14 CRA....