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Firm News | 9 min read | 01.09.23

Crowell & Moring Elects 16 New Partners, Promotes Five to Senior Counsel, and 25 to Counsel

Crowell & Moring elected 16 lawyers to the firm’s partnership, effective January 1, 2023. The firm also promoted five lawyers to the position of senior counsel and 25 associates to the position of counsel.

Client Alerts 36 results

Client Alert | 3 min read | 08.18.25

Recent GAO Sustain Includes Valuable Lessons on Proposal Preparation and More

GAO’s recent sustain of the protest filed by emissary LLC provides valuable lessons for potential offerors with respect to organizational conflict of interest (OCI) mitigation plans (and their impact on technical approach), as well as their descriptions of key personnel qualifications.
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Client Alert | 3 min read | 08.13.25

Court of Federal Claims Recognizes Additional Potential Recovery Opportunities under Energy Savings Performance Contracts

Earlier this year, we highlighted a notable Court of Federal Claims (CFC) decision recognizing that an energy savings performance contract (ESPC) contractor may be able to recover proposal preparation costs under the CFC’s bid protest jurisdiction. Now, in Siemens Government Technologies, Inc. v. United States, another CFC decision has reaches a similar conclusion and goes even further — also highlighting the potential to recover under the Court’s Contract Disputes Act (CDA) jurisdiction.  
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Client Alert | 4 min read | 07.08.25

GAO Moves the Goalposts: New Post-Debriefing Timeliness Trap for Protesters

The deadlines for filing a GAO protest are short and strictly enforced.  In post-award protests, the general rule is that a company must file its protest within ten days of when the protester knows, or should have known, of its basis of protest.  However, GAO’s regulations provide an exception to this rule for “protests challenging a procurement conducted on the basis of competitive proposals under which a debriefing is requested and, when requested, is required”—in such a situation, “[the] protest shall not be filed before the debriefing date offered to the protester, but shall be filed not later than 10 days after the date on which the debriefing is held.”  4 CFR §21.2(a)(2).
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Events 1 result

Event | 01.25.24, 4:00 PM EST - 6:00 PM EST

The GAO Bid Protest Process: Revealed, Uncut, and Uncensored

Have you ever wanted candid answers about how the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) works and decides bid protests? As the only law firm with three former GAO bid protest hearing officers, who have a combined 44 years of experience deciding bid protests, Crowell invites you to an in-person roundtable discussion featuring behind-the-scenes insight and tips.

Webinars 3 results

Webinar | 09.11.24, 12:00 PM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT

Bid Protests: Common Contractor Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

In this webinar, experienced bid protest practitioners, Amy O’Sullivan, Anuj Vohra, Olivia Lynch, and Cherie Owen discuss some of the most common mistakes contractors make with respect to the bid protest process, and how to avoid them

Webinar | 03.01.22 - 03.03.22, 8:00 AM EST - 12:00 PM EST

Grants & Infrastructure Webinar Series

The federal government awards billions of dollars in grants annually to fund public service, support non-profits, drive research initiatives and fund programs for colleges and universities.  With the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (the “Act”), the Federal Government is poised to launch $1.2 trillion into the economy, providing funding to commercial entities through federal grants over the next 5 years, which will impact the infrastructure of this country for the next generation.  Like government contracts, federal grants have their own myriad of regulatory requirements that each grant recipient must meet and which are flowed down to subrecipients and subcontractors.  
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Webinar | 01.27.22, 7:00 AM EST - 8:00 AM EST

Bid Protest Issues to Watch in 2022

Join us for a webinar discussion of some of the big bid protest issues to watch in the coming year – both at GAO and the Court of Federal Claims. Our discussion will cover the following key areas:
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Speaking Engagements 21 results

Blog Posts 22 results

Blog Post | 07.14.25

GAO Moves the Goalposts: New Post-Debriefing Timeliness Trap for Protesters

Crowell & Moring’s Government Contracts Legal Forum

Blog Post | 07.14.25

June 2025 Bid Protest Sustain of the Month: Impaired Objectivity OCI Allegations Find Success at GAO

Crowell & Moring’s Government Contracts Legal Forum 

Podcasts 1 result

Podcast | 03.29.22

All Things Protest: COFC Rejects GAO’s Key Personnel Notification Rule

Crowell & Moring’s “All Things Protest” podcast keeps you up to date on major trends in bid protest litigation, key developments in high-profile cases, and best practices in state and federal procurement. In this episode, Crowell attorneys discuss their recent “Feature Comment,” published in The Government Contractor, discussing the recent Court of Federal Claims decision rejecting GAO’s key personnel notification rule.
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