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Firm News 11 results

Firm News | 11 min read | 06.05.25

Crowell Attains Leading Rankings in Chambers USA 2025

Washington – June 5, 2025: Crowell & Moring earned 80 rankings for 71 lawyers, as well as 43 national and statewide practice area rankings, in the Chambers USA 2025 guide. The rankings are driven by independent interviews of clients and lawyers at peer firms.

Firm News | 3 min read | 10.12.23

Former GAO Bid Protest Attorney and Associate General Counsel for AI Defense Business Rejoins Crowell & Moring

Eric M. Ransom, a former attorney with the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, has rejoined Crowell & Moring as a partner in the firm’s premier Government Contracts Group. Eric will advise clients on the intersection of procurement laws, regulations, and best practices; and Artificial Intelligence and sophisticated defense technologies.

Firm News | 7 min read | 05.09.18

Chambers USA 2018 Ranks 52 Crowell & Moring Lawyers and 24 Practice Areas Among Best in U.S.

Washington – May 9, 2018: Crowell & Moring is pleased to announce that it has secured 60 rankings for 52 individual lawyers in the Chambers USA 2018 guide. Twenty-four practice areas were also ranked in the guide. The regional and national rankings are driven by independent interviews of clients and members of the legal community.
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Client Alerts 51 results

Client Alert | 1 min read | 05.30.25

GAO Dismissal Emphasizes that Attempts to Resolve Concerns with Procuring Agency Do Not Extend the Time to File a Protest

GAO’s recent dismissal of a protest filed by A2A Integrated Logistics, Inc. provides an important reminder regarding the strict timeliness rules that apply to bid protests. Quoters were required to electronically submit quotations and A2A experienced difficulty doing so. After contract award was announced, A2A emailed the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) stating that it had been unable to submit its quotation. Twenty days later, the VA responded, confirming that A2A’s quotation had not been received; A2A filed an agency-level protest the same day, which the VA dismissed as untimely. A2A then filed a GAO protest.
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Client Alert | 2 min read | 11.26.24

Commercial-Item Contractors Take Note: Federal Circuit to Rehear Percipient.ai En-Banc

On November 22, 2024, the Federal Circuit granted the United States’ petition for panel rehearing en banc of its June 2024 decision in Percipient.ai, Inc. v. United States (litigation we have extensively discussed here, here, and here).  In its June decision, the Circuit held Percipient had standing to challenge a National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) procurement action—whether NGA had complied with the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act’s (FASA) commercial-item mandate at 10 U.S.C. § 3453—nested within the performance of a previously awarded NGA task order upon which Percipient had not bid.
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Client Alert | 2 min read | 11.07.24

Bid Protest: Unreasonable and Ambiguous Solicitation Terms Sink Procurements

The term “bid protest” typically calls to mind challenges to an agency’s award of a contract.  But two recent GAO sustain decisions—Wilson 5 Service Company, Inc., B-422670, Sept. 25, 2024, 2024 CPD ¶ 230 and MAXIMUS Federal Services, Inc., B-422676, Sept. 16, 2024, 2024 CPD ¶ 222—highlight another impactful tool for protecting a contractor’s ability to compete fairly: pre-award challenges to ambiguous or unreasonably restrictive solicitation terms.
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Press Coverage 23 results

Press Coverage | 01.28.15

Trafficking Rule Raises Subcontractor Monitoring Concerns

Law360
Washington, D.C.-based Government Contacts Group partner, Peter Eyre, talks to Law360 regarding a final rule that will tighten restrictions on human trafficking in government contracting. Under its requirements, all contractors must disclose working conditions to employees, are barred from confiscating passports or other immigration documents, must ensure that workers aren't being charged any recruitment fees, and must provide the worker with return transportation for non-nationals. "I think another big question is: 'Who pays for this?'" Eyre said. "There are some very specific obligations, both the compliance plan ... and others. But who is going to pay for that?"
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Publications 8 results

Publication | 01.31.13

Litigation Forecast 2013: What Corporate Counsel Need to Know for the Coming Year

Crowell & Moring LLP publication

Events 2 results

Event | 05.09.23 - 05.10.23, 7:15 AM EDT - 12:15 PM EDT

39th Annual Ounce of Prevention Seminar—Government Contracting Amidst a Global Shake-Up

In this challenging world, government contractors are facing many opportunities and new risks. Join us for our Annual Ounce of Prevention Seminar (OOPS) where our experienced practitioners will be providing insight in a variety of areas, including accounting, cost & pricing, bid protests, claims, cross-border considerations, cybersecurity, False Claims Act enforcement, government IP, mergers & acquisitions, small business issues, and more.

Event | 04.18.13, 12:00 AM UTC - 12:00 AM UTC

Federal Publications - Bid Protests: Practice, Procedure and Strategy

This workshop will explain the key advance-planning, decision-making, litigation, and litigation avoidance practice pointers for bid protests before an agency, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. 
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Webinars 3 results

Webinar | 01.12.23, 8:00 AM EST - 9:30 AM EST

What Will the New Year Bring for Government Contractors?

As 2023 rolls in, what changes can government contractors expect? What will be the focus of the US Government? How should contractors prepare?
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Webinar | 01.14.16, 8:00 AM EST - 10:30 AM EST

What Will the New Year Bring for Government Contractors?

Please click here for a copy of the presentation. Will it be more of the same for government contractors in 2016 -- increased oversight, intense competition, new regulations, and consolidation? Join the Crowell & Moring team on Thursday, January 14 at 1:00 pm Eastern to find out. Our attorneys will discuss likely trends for the coming year on a variety of topics including cost, commercial items, update on Executive Orders, investigations, compliance, suspension/debarment, GSA and VA schedules, mergers & acquisitions, small business, procurement fraud and so much more.
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Webinar | 10.15.15, 5:00 AM EDT - 1:30 PM EDT

PubKLaw Annual Government Contracts Review - FY 15/16

A one-day webcast featuring analyses and updates of FY15’s most important developments in government contracting, and the outlook for FY16.
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Speaking Engagements 24 results

Blog Posts 18 results

Blog Post | 04.23.25

March 2025 Bid Protest Sustain of the Month: GAO Finds Solicitation’s Page Limits Latently Ambiguous

Crowell & Moring’s Government Contracts Legal Forum

Blog Post | 12.18.23

November Bid Protest Sustain of the Month

Crowell & Moring’s Government Contracts Legal Forum

Blog Post | 11.21.23

October Bid Protest Sustain of the Month

Crowell & Moring’s Government Contracts Legal Forum

Podcasts 35 results

Podcast | 12.19.23

All Things Protest: Year-End Trends and a Look Ahead to 2024

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, host Rob Sneckenberg highlights three protest trends in 2023—the Federal Circuit revisiting jurisdictional issues; the success and significance of protests in multiple-award procurements; and the potentially increasing importance of COFC protests—plus what to watch for in 2024.
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Podcast | 03.30.23

Fastest 5 Minutes: Supplier Performance Risk System, Procurement Integrity Act

This week's episode covers a final rule amending the DFARS to incorporate the expanded capabilities of the Supplier Performance Risk System and requirements on contracting officers, a bid protest decision at the Court of Federal Claims regarding standing, and a GAO protest decision about the Procurement Integrity Act, and is hosted by Peter Eyre and Yuan Zhou. Crowell & Moring's "Fastest 5 Minutes" is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without.
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Podcast | 03.01.23

Fastest 5 Minutes: Voluntary Disclosures, Disruptive Technology Strike Force

This week's episode covers DOJ’s Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy, a new Disruptive Technology Strike Force, and a bid protest involving evaluation of a joint venture’s past performance, and is hosted by Peter Eyre and Yuan Zhou. Crowell & Moring's "Fastest 5 Minutes" is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without.
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