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The Ever Expanding Impact of Criminal Convictions

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 03.14.16

As part of the ABA’s 2016 National Institute on White Collar Crime, Crowell & Moring attorneys presented on collateral consequences of criminal convictions and prepared articles on the topic: Changing Landscape for Post-Conviction Collateral Consequences and Impact of Criminal Conviction on Public Sector Contactors and Grantees.

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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].”...