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Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – July 2024

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Department of Defense (DOD) Final Rule: Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), Architect and Engineering Service Fees - On June 27, DOD published a final rule updating the DFARS increasing the fee limit...more

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Broken Promises: The Government’s Ability to Trick Contractors and Get Away With It (Maybe)

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As the government embraced the digital age in the years after COVID-19, its need for new software and technologies skyrocketed. This rapidly expanding procurement need presents great opportunities for businesses—both small...more

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Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – June 2024 #2

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Small Business Administration (SBA) Direct Final Rule: Eliminating Self-Certification for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSBs) - On June 6, SBA published a direct final rule amending its SDVOSB...more

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Question the Questions and the Answers: Bid Protest Decision Highlights Need to Clarify Ambiguities Prior to Bidding

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Many solicitations for government contracts provide prospective contractors with the opportunity to ask questions. In some instances, the government’s answers to those questions create additional questions. When that’s the...more

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Is It Time for Regulations on GSA’s Contractor Teaming Arrangements?

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In the late 1990s, the General Services Administration (GSA) created the concept of Contractor Teaming Arrangements (CTAs). Unlike the contractor teaming arrangements described under FAR 9.601, which simply describe a joint...more

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Proposed regs would ban federal contractors from requesting salary information, require job postings to include comp information...

On January 30, the Federal Acquisition Regulation Council, through its constituent agencies (the U.S. Department of Defense, General Services Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Office of...more

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New Federal Proposed Rule Addressing “Pay Equity and Transparency in Federal Contracting”

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The Biden administration’s Fall 2023 United Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions included a variety of near and long term regulatory plans for federal agencies, including regulatory action for pay equity and...more

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Proposed FAR Clause Prohibits the Use of Compensation History in Hiring and Requires That Federal Contractors and Subcontractors...

If implemented, the proposed rule will have wide-reaching implications for how federal contractors and subcontractors conduct hiring. The proposed rule prohibits contractors and subcontractors from seeking applicants’...more

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The FAR Council’s Proposed Cybersecurity Overhaul: Lots Of Questions, But Only Some Answers

In what can best be described as a tsunami of cybersecurity regulation, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council—consisting of the Department of Defense (DoD), General Services Administration (GSA), and National...more

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GSA/DoD Transportation Law Primer

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Many government agencies accomplish their critical missions by using private transportation and logistics services. The General Services Administration (GSA) is often the key federal agency for managing private procurement of...more

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Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – August 2023

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Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR): Sustainable Procurement, Case 2022-06 - Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration are proposing to amend the FAR to...more

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U.S. Government’s TikTok Ban Leaves Open Questions for Contractors

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A new Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR 52.204-27) clause prohibits federal contractors and subcontractors from “having or using” the social networking service TikTok or any “successor application” developed by ByteDance, a...more

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Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – March 2023 #4

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CONSTRUCTION - DOL: Biden-Harris Administration Launches Initiative to Promote Equal Opportunity, Expand Workforce for Federally Funded Jobs in Large Infrastructure Projects - U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced...more

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Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – March 2023 #2

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LITIGATION & DISPUTE RESOLUTION - The FCA at the Supreme Court, Part 2 of 4: Addressing the Standard for Knowingly Submitting a False Claim - The False Claims Act (FCA) is seeing quite a bit of action at the Supreme...more

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Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – March 2023

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GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS - Veterans Affairs Imposes Increased Cybersecurity Rules on Government Contractors - The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) released a final rule, effective February 24, 2023, amending the...more

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DOD, GSA, and NASA Update FAR to Provide for Accelerated Payments to Small Businesses and to Conform to SBA Regulations

In the past week, there were several important updates made to the Federal Acquisition Regulations by the Department of Defense (DoD), General Services Administration (GSA), and the National Aeronautics and Space...more

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FAR Council Issues Final Rule on Accelerated Payments to Small Businesses

The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council recently published a final rule to implement a policy that provides for accelerated payments to small business prime contractors and small business subcontractors. This...more

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Inflation Relief Is Coming for DOD Contractors

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As PilieroMazza has reported, rising costs due to inflation have been one of the most significant issues facing contractors with fixed-price contracts for the past year. Although the Department of Defense (DOD) and General...more

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Tomato, Tomahto...Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off: Virginia District Court Decision Shows Perils of Federal Contractor Teaming...

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Teaming agreements are a common, beneficial, and sometimes necessary way for industry to come together and meet the federal government’s needs. But the devil is in the details. A recent decision from the U.S. District Court...more

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Act Fast: ESOP-Owned Defense Contractors Eligible for Sole-Source Awards in New DOD Pilot Program

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The Department of Defense (DOD) recently launched a pilot program allowing Contracting Officers (CO) to award sole-source follow-on contracts to contractors owned 100% by an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). Although...more

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Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – October 2022 #2

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LITIGATION & DISPUTE RESOLUTION - Disloyal Employees: Disgorgement Offers Employers Some Reprieve - In many states, employees owe a duty of loyalty to their employer as long as they remain on the employer’s payroll. In...more

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Overcoming the Inflation Crisis: The Ins-and-Outs of Extraordinary Contractual Relief for Government Contractors

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An all but forgotten remedy in government contracting, Extraordinary Contractual Relief (ECR), is in the midst of a potential resurgence due to the Department of Defense’s (DOD) most recent memorandum on inflation entitled...more

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Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – September 2022 #5

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GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS - SBA’s Proposed Rule Alters the Landscape for Size and Status Protests - On September 9, 2022, the Small Business Administration issued a proposed rule (the Rule) making substantial changes to the...more

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DOD and GSA Inflation Update: Key Takeaways for Government Contractors

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Inflation continues to be among the top problems facing government contractors, as it continues to rise and contractor’s resources to address the problem become depleted. Even falling gas prices is not enough to curb the...more

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Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses– June 2022 #2

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GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS - House Passes Bill Increasing Importance of Subcontracting Plan Performance as an Evaluation Factor - On June 8, 2022, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill, referred to as H.R. 7694,...more

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