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PilieroMazza Annual Review: Lessons from 2023 Contract Claims and Appeals Decisions Affect Approach to 2024 Cases
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Podcast Series: Commercial Businesses New to Government Contracting: So You Want to be a Government Contractor? What Commercial Businesses Need to Know
Buy American: What Government Contractors Need to Know
Bidding for Major Contracts? Compliance Requirements You Should Prepare for Now
2021 Bid Protest Decisions with Far-Reaching Impacts for Government Contractors
2022 NDAA: Important Considerations for Government Contractors
Bid Protest: LPTAs - Are They Still Okay? - Webinar
Podcast: Discussing Government Procurement with Karen Walker and Tiffany Roddenberry
Biden Administration: The First 100 Days and Key Developments to Watch
Past Performance: How to Use Yours, Benefit from Others’, and Defend It from Attacks
Missteps in the Bid Protest Process: War Stories from the Trenches
Roadmap to Joint Venture Agreements: Legal and Accounting Considerations
Navigating Section 889 of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act
Common Issues in Government Procurement and Contracting with John Edwards and William Stowe
SBA’s Final Rule on Mentor-Protégé Programs: Key Changes for Government Contractors
Williams Mullen's COVID-19 Comeback Plan: Part II – Doing Business With the Commonwealth of Virginia
Prohibitions on Use of Chinese Telecommunications Equipment and Services, Complying with the NDAA
Shoot for the STARS: Q&A with SBA’s John Klein on GSA's 8(a) STARS III RFP
In the recent MicroTechnologies LLC and SMS Data Products Group, Inc. decisions, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) sustained protests challenging the Agency’s failure to perform the required price risk analysis under...more
The Department of Defense finally issued its rule to implement Section 865 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2024 (Pub. L. 118-31). The act required the DoD to issue a regulation by July 2024...more
This article is part of a monthly column that provides takeaways from recent bid protest cases. In this installment, we highlight decisions from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Government...more
In addition to opening the door to possible awards under the government’s Other Transactions Authority (OTA), products and services provided by contractors that meet the definition of a Non-Traditional Defense Contractor...more
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (“NDAA”), signed into law on December 26, 2023, contains a number of important changes to federal procurement law and policy....more
The Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes numerous provisions relevant to government contractors in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, supply chain concerns related to...more
Recently, Cherissa Tamayori, Director of Acquisition and Senior Contracting Official for the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), joined U.S. military and defense industry experts from around the globe at the Navy League’s...more
On April 4, 2023, the Defense Contract Management Agency’s (“DCMA”) Commercial Item Group held an industry day at Fort Lee in Virginia. The DCMA Commercial Item Group assists DOD purchasers in determining whether items...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
Though we are not yet halfway through 2022, the COFC has issued two decisions that highlight divergent views from GAO precedent regarding the availability of key personnel and whether there is a presumption that an Agency...more
LABOR & EMPLOYMENT - Government Contractors to Register for Affirmative Action Program Compliance Certification Beginning February 1, 2022 - In December 2021, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP)...more
2019 has been a year of pivotal developments for defense contractors in the realm of cybersecurity compliance. The Department of Defense (DoD) issued six guidance memoranda to assist its acquisition personnel in developing...more
SEASON'S GREETINGS FROM PILIEROMAZZA! CLIENT ALERT: The 2020 NDAA's Impact on Government Contractors - On December 17, 2019, the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2020,...more
Our monthly edition of the “Government Contracts Regulatory and Legislative Update” offers a summary of and insight into the relevant industry developments that occurred during the previous month. Regulations - The FAR...more
The Department of Defense (DOD) recently promulgated a final rule limiting the DOD’s ability to use the Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) method of procurement. The final rule — which took effect on October 1, 2019,...more
The Department of Defense (DOD) has promulgated the final rule restricting DOD’s use of Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) acquisition methods. The final rule adopts, without any substantive changes, the proposed rule...more
As predicted, a recent decision from the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of California is the first sign of a new, and potentially enormous wave, of Civil False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-33 (“FCA”) actions...more
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) proposed to amend the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) on December 4, 2018, to limit the use of lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA) procurements. The...more
The overuse of the Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) source selection process (see FAR 15.101-2(a)) has drawn criticism from both industry and government over the last few years. While LPTA offers a streamlined...more
SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION - Boosting small business demands big ideas - According to an article in dcma.mil, there are 28 million small businesses in America, and Defense Contract Management Agency’s small business...more
In the last decade or so, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has been, in the words of the Section 809 Panel, an “unattractive customer to large and small firms with innovative, state-of-the-art solutions.” Among other...more
The Situation: The U.S. Department of Defense has faced criticism from the Office of Inspector General and the Government Accountability Office concerning its handling of commercial item procurements. The Response: As a...more
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (FY17 NDAA), signed into law by President Obama on December 23, includes limitations on a low price evaluation methodology and a preference for fixed price contracts...more
The passage of the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 and the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 saw the dawning of a new era in procurement policy, pursuant to which sweeping changes to the procurement laws and regulations...more
SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION - Affiliation for Business Loan Programs and Surety Bond Guarantee Program This final rule amends the regulations pertaining to the determination of size eligibility based on affiliation...more