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Not So Fast – GSA Implements New SAM Registration Requirements After Fraudulent Activity

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 04.17.18

Following fraudulent activity in the System for Award Management (SAM), the General Services Administration (GSA) is implementing new requirements for registration in SAM.  Effective March 22, 2018, new entities to SAM are now required to submit a notarized letter identifying their authorized Entity Administrator before a new SAM registration is activated, and beginning April 27, 2018, entities with existing SAM registrations will also be required to submit this notarized letter to confirm the authorized Entity Administrator before current SAM registrations are updated or renewed.

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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].”...