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Evaluation Backup Gets Hard Look

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 09.20.05

Rebuffing the agency's attempt to insulate the evaluations of the first-line evaluators from scrutiny, the Court of Federal Claims in Beta Analytics Int'l, Inc. v. U.S. (Sept. 6, 2005), reviewed the narratives and scoring and found that they didn't add up, to the protester's prejudice. The court held that it could not focus only on the top-level award decision documentation when the findings there were built on the lower-level scorings.

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Client Alert | 3 min read | 01.20.26

DoW Joins SBA’s Fight Against Alleged Pass-Through Fraud in the 8(a) Program

On January 16, 2026, U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth posted a video on social media outlining the U.S. Department of War’s (DoW) plan to combat fraud, waste, and abuse in the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) 8(a) Business Development Program. ...