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Bid Protest Spotlight: Rule Of Two, Post Award, Cost Request

This article is part of a monthly column that provides takeaways from recent bid protest cases. This installment highlights three decisions from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Each of this month's decisions...more

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Government Accountability Office Determines Navy Improperly Evaluated Technical Proposal: Lewis Roca

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Bid protest determinations serve to resolve challenges to procurement decisions by government agencies. Beyond that purpose, these rulings can also offer valuable insights as to what factors determine whether or not a...more

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DECEMBER 2021 BID PROTEST ROUNDUP

This month’s Law360 Bid Protest Roundup focuses on two Government Accountability Office (GAO) decisions and one recent Federal Circuit decision. These decisions involve (1) the risks of using former government employees in...more

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July 2021 Bid Protest Roundup (Law360 Spotlight)

This month’s Law360 Bid Protest Roundup examines three recent decisions from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. The first two cases highlight splits between the court and the Government Accountability Office related to...more

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May 2021 Bid Protest Roundup (Law360 Spotlight)

This month’s Bid Protest Roundup (featured on Law360) examines three recent decisions by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Court of Federal Claims (COFC). The first, Tridentis, LLC, highlights the...more

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GAO Urges Changes As Weapon Systems Cybersecurity Continues To Lag

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On March 4, 2021, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) published a report titled “Weapon Systems Cybersecurity: Guidance Would Help DOD Programs Better Communicate Requirements to Contractors” (the “Report”).1...more

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Beware the Automated Email Response: GAO Protest Decision Highlights Need for Vigilance in Remote Work Environment

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Don’t rely on an out-of-office notification to keep you in the competition. The U.S. Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) recently-published decision in Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc., B-418946, Oct. 23, 2020, 2020 CPD...more

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May Bid Protest Roundup (Law360 Spotlight)

This month’s Law360 spotlight examines three protest decisions addressing first article testing, proprietary information in unsolicited proposals, and timely submittal of proposals... Article first appeared in Law360, June...more

Stinson - Government Contracting Matters

Past Performance, Present (and Future) Problems

Government contractors should consider all contract performance vitally important because they can’t always control which past performance is considered by agency evaluators. ...more

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GAO Sustains a Protest of an Out-Of-Scope Contract Modification

Many government contractors do not know that they can protest a modification of a contract that was awarded to a competitor if that modification is materially beyond the scope of the original contract. It’s true: where a...more

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Contractor Can’t Protest an LPTA Procurement in Disguise

A recent decision from the GAO serves as a harsh reminder that protests based on the terms of the solicitation must be filed pre-award.    In Megatech Corporation, B-417582 (June 25, 2019), a contractor brought a protest,...more

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GAO Upholds Waiver(s) of OCI Allegations

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On January 30, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued its decision denying Concurrent Technologies Corp.’s (CTC) protest of the U.S. Navy’s award of a support contract for the Navy Manufacturing Technology...more

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How Much U.S. Work Is Needed for the Small Business Set-Aside Rules To Apply?

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In a decision issued last year, the GAO denied the protest of Maersk Line, Limited, of Norfolk, Virginia (“Maersk”), a large business, which challenged the decision of the Department of the Navy, Military Sealift Command...more

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GAO Holds That Agency Improperly Credited Offeror With Past Performance of Affiliates

In IAP World Services, Inc.; EMCOR Government Services, B-407917.2 et al. (July 10, 2013), involving a protest challenging an award by the U.S. Department of the Navy (the “Navy”) for base operating support services, the...more

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