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Crowell & Moring Cops #1 Ranking

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 07.31.09

Chambers USA has released its 2009 rankings of national Government Contracts practices, and C&M once again ranks in the First Band. Chambers takes note of our "extraordinary depth and experience across the board" and "pure quality and prestige" and recognizes several individuals as "Leading Lawyers" in the field -- congratulations to Terry Albertson, Tom Humphrey, Stan Johnson ("everybody's gold standard"), Kent Morrison, and Angela Styles.

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Client Alert | 4 min read | 10.30.26

Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right: GAO Sustains Protest Where Agency Tried to Fix PIA Violation with a Second PIA Violation

Recent sustain decisions by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) in Fluor Federal Solutions, LLC and Reliance Test & Technology send a clear message: when an agency tries to fix a Procurement Integrity Act (PIA) violation by committing a second one, the cure can be just as fatal as the disease. The cases involved the U.S. Air Force’s $1.8 billion procurement for O&M services at Elgin Air Force Base. During discussions, the Air Force inadvertently released a pricing overview slide with all offerors’ bottom-line evaluated costs to Reliance Test & Technology, which immediately notified the agency of the error. In response, the Air Force decided to level the playing field by providing the same information to all the other offerors in the procurement, stating, “[o]fferors may consider this disclosure in their [final proposal revision].”...