Triple Whammy: Agencies Flunk Price Evaluations
Client Alert | 1 min read | 07.30.15
With the government's increased focus on price in the face of tightening budgets, GAO has also increased its focus on price evaluations by agencies. In recent weeks, disappointed offerors have successfully challenged (1) the Air Force's price reasonableness and price realism analysis in KWR Constr. Inc., (2) the VA's failure to meaningfully evaluate price realism—despite an express statement requiring it in the solicitation—in B&B Med. Servs., Inc., and (3) the Air Force's unequal treatment of the protester's labor rates when performing price realism analysis in Cubic Applications, Inc.
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Client Alert | 7 min read | 11.24.25
Draft Executive Order Seeks to Short-Circuit AI State Regulation
President Trump is preparing to sign an Executive Order that would seek to forestall state regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) by threatening federal lawsuits and the withholding of some federal funds. The draft, unsigned six-page Executive Order, “Eliminating State Law Obstruction of National AI Policy” (EO), the text of which has been circulating publicly since November 19, would declare it the policy of the Administration “to sustain and enhance America’s global AI dominance through a minimally burdensome, uniform national policy framework for AI.”
Client Alert | 3 min read | 11.21.25
Client Alert | 3 min read | 11.20.25
Client Alert | 3 min read | 11.20.25
