Issac D. Schabes
Overview
Issac D. Schabes assists government contractors, big and small businesses alike, in a wide range of government contracts litigation and counseling matters. Issac is particularly adept at helping contractors protect their interests in bid protest proceedings at the Government Accountability Office, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, federal procuring agencies, and state and local contracting agencies. Drawing on his prior law clerk experience at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, Issac understands the complex and strategic decision-making that fuels a successful protest or defense of a government contract.
Career & Education
- Maryland
Law Clerk, Honorable Robert N. McDonald, Supreme Court of Maryland, 2019–2020 - U.S. Court of Federal Claims
Law Clerk, Honorable Matthew H. Solomson, 2020–2021
- Maryland
- University of Maryland Carey School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, 2019
Maryland Law Review: executive editor - Ner Israel College, B.A., 2009
- University of Maryland Carey School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, 2019
- District of Columbia
- Maryland
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
- Vice Chair, ABA PCLS Bid Protest Committe
- Member, U.S. Court of Federal Claims Advisory Council
Issac's Insights
Client Alert | 3 min read | 03.06.25
On February 24, 2025, in Raytheon Company v. United States, Judge Bonilla of the Court of Federal Claims (CFC) submitted the latest—and perhaps most definitive—entry in a growing body of jurisprudence confirming the CFC’s Tucker Act bid protest jurisdiction encompasses challenges to awards made under the Department of Defense’s Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) authority. Upon establishing a framework for considering its ability to review OTA awards, the CFC declared itself “the de facto forum for bid protests involving ‘other transactions’ and ‘other transaction agreements.’”
Client Alert | 3 min read | 02.03.25
COFC Holds That Federal PLA Mandate Is Unlawful; Reinterprets Blue and Gold Waiver Rule
Client Alert | 2 min read | 01.27.25
State Department Pauses Almost All Foreign Assistance Funding
Client Alert | 1 min read | 01.10.25
FAR Council Withdraws Proposed Mandatory Climate Disclosures for Federal Contractor Rule
Representative Matters
- Successfully protested Air Force’s award of $300 million contract for adversarial training services by obtaining agency corrective action and won recommendation for reimbursement of protest costs.
- Successfully protested U.S. Secret Service award of $18 million contract for cellular communications services and equipment.
- Successfully defended against protest challenging Administrative Office of the U.S. Court’s multiple award contract with total estimated value of $1.5 billion.
- Successfully defended against protest challenging Department of Defense award of $240 million contract for the TRI-GSM program.
- Successfully protested GSA’s award of a $678 million contract for systems engineering and integration services by obtaining agency corrective action.
Issac's Insights
Client Alert | 3 min read | 03.06.25
On February 24, 2025, in Raytheon Company v. United States, Judge Bonilla of the Court of Federal Claims (CFC) submitted the latest—and perhaps most definitive—entry in a growing body of jurisprudence confirming the CFC’s Tucker Act bid protest jurisdiction encompasses challenges to awards made under the Department of Defense’s Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) authority. Upon establishing a framework for considering its ability to review OTA awards, the CFC declared itself “the de facto forum for bid protests involving ‘other transactions’ and ‘other transaction agreements.’”
Client Alert | 3 min read | 02.03.25
COFC Holds That Federal PLA Mandate Is Unlawful; Reinterprets Blue and Gold Waiver Rule
Client Alert | 2 min read | 01.27.25
State Department Pauses Almost All Foreign Assistance Funding
Client Alert | 1 min read | 01.10.25
FAR Council Withdraws Proposed Mandatory Climate Disclosures for Federal Contractor Rule
Insights
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July, 2023
Thomson Reuters - The Nash & Cibinic Report
Voluntary Stay Strategies and Considerations: Bid Protests at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and the U.S. Government Accountability Office,
|03.12.21
ABA Federal Procurement Institute
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03.11.22
Crowell & Moring’s Government Contracts Legal Forum
Issac's Insights
Client Alert | 3 min read | 03.06.25
On February 24, 2025, in Raytheon Company v. United States, Judge Bonilla of the Court of Federal Claims (CFC) submitted the latest—and perhaps most definitive—entry in a growing body of jurisprudence confirming the CFC’s Tucker Act bid protest jurisdiction encompasses challenges to awards made under the Department of Defense’s Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) authority. Upon establishing a framework for considering its ability to review OTA awards, the CFC declared itself “the de facto forum for bid protests involving ‘other transactions’ and ‘other transaction agreements.’”
Client Alert | 3 min read | 02.03.25
COFC Holds That Federal PLA Mandate Is Unlawful; Reinterprets Blue and Gold Waiver Rule
Client Alert | 2 min read | 01.27.25
State Department Pauses Almost All Foreign Assistance Funding
Client Alert | 1 min read | 01.10.25
FAR Council Withdraws Proposed Mandatory Climate Disclosures for Federal Contractor Rule
