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No Tolerance For Not Meeting Storage Requirements

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 05.03.10

After a lengthy back-and-forth at GAO, the protestor finds relief at the Court of Federal Claims with the award to its competitor for storage space being set aside. The court found in Metro. Van and Storage, Inc. v. U.S. (Apr. 16, 2010) that the awardee did not meet the technical requirements of the RFP that it have a minimum of storage space under firm commitment and refused to brush off these problems as contract administration issues.

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Client Alert | 8 min read | 10.01.25

BIS Issues “Affiliates Rule” to Dramatically Expand Applicability of Entity and Military End-User Lists

On September 29, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced a sweeping Interim Final Rule (IFR), (the “Affiliates Rule”) expanding which entities qualify as Entity List or Military End-User entities, thereby subjecting those entities to elevated export control restrictions under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). U.S. export restrictions applicable to entities on the Entity List, Military End-User (MEU) List, and Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN List) now apply to foreign affiliates that are, in the aggregate, owned 50% or more by one or more of the aforementioned entities. An entity that becomes subject to these restrictions because of its ownership structure will be subject to the most restrictive controls that attach to any of its parent entities, regardless of ownership stakes....