NAICS Challengers at Court Must First Exhaust Administrative Remedies
Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 04.27.15
On April 22, 2015, the Federal Circuit ruled in Palladian Partners, Inc. v. U.S. that, although the Court of Federal Claims has jurisdiction to review challenges to NAICS code decisions made by the SBA's Office of Hearing and Appeals (OHA), in order for an offeror to challenge such a decision at the court, the offeror had to have participated in the appeal at OHA brought by a different offeror. Here, because the offeror failed to do so, the offeror had not exhausted its administrative remedies, and the case was remanded to be dismissed.
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Client Alert | 4 min read | 08.20.25
FAR Council Issues Rewrites to FAR Parts 8 and 12
On August 14, 2025, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) and the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council) issued draft revisions to FAR Part 8 and FAR Part 12 (as well as to FAR Parts 4 and 40). These are the latest rewrites under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) initiative pursuant to Executive Order 14275, “Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement,” which we previously reported on here.
Client Alert | 15 min read | 08.20.25
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Forged Faces, Real Liability: Deepfake Laws Take Effect in Washington State and Pennsylvania
