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Federal government contracts are routinely awarded to companies supplying goods and services to U.S. government agencies. According to the Government Accountability Office, in 2023, the federal government committed about $759...more
On July 16, 2024, the Court of Federal Claims (“COFC” or “Court”) published an opinion, Independent Rough Terrain Center, LLC v. United States, exercising jurisdiction to consider a bid protest involving Other Transaction...more
You’re a federal government contractor who just won a contract award. But, before you pop the champagne, there’s a hiccup: a competitor filed a bid protest challenging your award. “Oh, well,” you think, “the government can...more
Bradley has been publishing an ongoing survey of state-level bid protest processes and procedures (e.g., our posts on “Bid Protests in North Carolina,” “Bid Protests in Georgia,” “Bid Protests in the District of Columbia,”...more
Bradley has been publishing an ongoing survey of state-level bid protest processes and procedures (see, e.g., our posts on bid protests in North Carolina, Georgia, the District of Columbia, New York, Virginia, and Alabama)....more
Since the beginning of Fiscal Year 2024, the Government Accountability Office has published 35 decisions, but only two of which resulted in decisions sustaining the challenge. As contracting activities are busy awarding new...more
Welcome to Jenner & Block’s Government Contracts Legal Round‑Up, a biweekly update on important government contracts developments. This update offers brief summaries of key developments for government contracts legal,...more
As the federal government’s fiscal year draws to a close, we expect to see an increase in agencies awarding contracts and contractors protesting those awards. A bid protest is a significant event for any government...more
On July 8, the Department of Defense (DoD) Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (OUSD (A&S)) announced its first update to the Other Transactions (OT) Guide since November 2018. The DoD OT...more
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently sustained a protest in Life Science Logistics, LLC, B-421018.2, .3 (April 19, 2023), finding that an agency’s discussions were not meaningful where they did not disclose...more
A procuring agency has wide latitude to define its evaluation criteria and relative priorities in soliciting quotations for services. Once it arrives at a decision, the agency must sufficiently document its justification for...more
Unduly restrictive competition refers to actions or policies by a procuring agency that impedes or limits free and fair competition. This can lead to higher prices, reduced innovation, and decreased quality of products and...more
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released its 2022 Bid Protest Annual Report (Report), which reviews statistics compiled from the cases brought before the agency, including protests, cost claims, and...more
Generally, government agencies are given broad discretion to define their needs; however, last month, the United States Court of Federal Claims chose to curtail an agency’s authority to cancel and amend bid solicitations in...more
Eminent IT, LLC, protested a contract award decision by the Department of State (DOS). The contract was for the maintenance, operation, and management of PeopleSoft in a production environment using Scaled Agile Framework...more
Bradley has been publishing an ongoing survey of state-level bid protest processes and procedures (see, e.g., our post on “Bid Protests in New York”). For the next state in this ongoing series, we focus on the bid protest...more
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently issued two decisions sustaining challenges to solicitation restrictions on mentor-protégé joint ventures. Both were matters of first impression for GAO, in which GAO...more
New York state’s budget is the second largest in the country, and with it, New York has some of the most developed state acquisition laws and procedures in the country. Accordingly, New York provides comparatively robust bid...more
Pre-award protests can be tricky. The U.S. Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) has jurisdiction to hear timely bid protests by interested parties regarding violations of procurement law or regulation. Under GAO rules, a...more
As experienced protest counsel, we know (i) that you can pick lint off of any procurement; and (ii) because of that fact, a protester alleging error in the procurement process needs to show that the error was “prejudicial.”...more
On Monday, in the much-anticipated decision in Acetris Health, LLC v. U.S. 18-2399, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the “Federal Circuit”) ruled that U.S. manufacture of a drug is sufficient to confer U.S....more
In this post, we briefly summarize three of the key bid protest decisions published in November 2019....more
The government fiscal year runs from October 1 to September 30, and at the end of each fiscal year federal agencies rush to award contracts and commit funding before that funding expires. As a result, our Government Contracts...more