This month’s bid protest roundup highlights three recent decisions that address critical issues for federal contractors: the importance of contemporaneous documentation in proposal evaluations, the standards for overriding a...more
10/17/2025
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On September 10, 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) published its long-awaited final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to incorporate contractual requirements related to the...more
9/12/2025
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At the end of 2024, Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) published a plan (“Restoring Freedom’s Forge: American Innovation Unleashed”) and introduced a bill (the Fostering Reform and Government Efficiency in Defense Act or FoRGED...more
4/25/2025
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The Administration signed two Executive Orders (EOs or “Orders”) and one Presidential Memorandum (“Memo”) on April 9, 2025, that aim to make federal procurements faster and more efficient:
1.Modernizing Defense...more