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King & Spalding

Proposed FAR Revisions Aim to Standardize Cybersecurity Requirements Across Agencies and Add Incident Reporting Obligations for...

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On October 3, the Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration published two sets of proposed revisions to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”) pertaining...more

Polsinelli

USDA Seeks to Revive “Blacklist” Rule Requiring Contractors to Certify Labor Violations

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On February 17, 2022, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking updating USDA’s Agriculture Acquisition Regulation (AGAR), the agency’s counterpart to the Federal Acquisition...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

No Claim Too Small: Contractor Settles FCA Claims for Failure to Return $14,000 of Reimbursed Equipment

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On May 28, 2021, a District of Maine judge granted a joint motion for stipulated judgment in favor of the United States, ending the False Claims Act suit against a Coast Guard contractor hired to assist with the excavation of...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Ninth Circuit Affirms Contract Exclusion Bars Coverage for False Claims Act Lawsuit

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, applying California law, affirmed a district court opinion finding no coverage under a directors and officers liability policy for a lawsuit brought against the...more

Snell & Wilmer

Warning! Danger Ahead for Public Entities

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Public entities are known to assert False Claims actions “to up the ante” to intimidate and aggressively address contractor construction claims. This strategy in the case of John Ross of Industrial Sheet Metal, Inc. (JRI) V....more

Troutman Pepper

Fixed-Price Contracts Are Simple - Or Are They?

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Firm fixed-price contracts seem like a simple concept in practice — agreements that do not allow for the modification of the contract price after award without an express agreement between the parties. Originally published...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Court Rejects Cap on FCA Damages for Allegations of Subcontracting Plan Fraud

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Last month, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington denied a motion to limit damages against a government contractor, United States ex rel. Savage v. Washington Closure Hanford LLC, where the government...more

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