Remington Arms Company and Colt Defense recently had a “shootout” about a government contract before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Remington won.
Professional employee compensation under the Federal Acquisition Regulation
Issue 19-12 (November 2019) of “Briefing Papers” has published my article entitled “Professional Employee Compensation Under FAR 52.222-46." Published monthly by Thomson Reuters, “Briefing Papers” provides advice and guidelines on topics about contra
New rules limit lowest price, technically acceptable selection procedures
The Department of Defense (DOD) has issued a final rule to prohibit the use of lowest price, technically acceptable (LPTA) source-selection procedures unless the circumstances satisfy eight criteria. The procedures direct contracting officers to avoi
Procuring agency’s corrective action may turn a bid protest into “academic exercise”
A common occurrence in Government Accountability Office (GAO) bid-protest practice is for the procuring agency to announce it will take corrective action in response to a complaint against the award and the agency requests that GAO dismiss the protes
Inexperience is no excuse
Protesters will not be excused from abiding by the bid protest regulations of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) because of their inexperience with protests or their lack of understanding of the GAO protest procedures.[1] Thus, the GAO’s bid
Successful bid protests require evidence and explanation, not mere allegations and speculation
In BNL, Inc., B-409450, B-409450.3, 2014 CPD ¶ 138, 2014 WL 1818046, the protester in a procurement for management, acquisition, and financial support to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) argued that the agency improperly evaluated the proposal
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In the 1998 movie Armageddon, oil drillers are launched into space to destroy a Texas-sized asteroid hurtling toward Earth. Their special skills are needed to drill a hole into the asteroid to plant a nuclear device that will destroy the asteroid and save Earth. Before they are launched into space, one of the drillers wryly remarks: “You know we’re sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon, and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn’t it?”
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More than $750,000—that’s what a federal government contractor was going to have to pay until a federal appeals court reduced the amount to $14,748.
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The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has issued a revised Cybersecurity Discipline Implementation Plan. The previous version of the plan was issued in October 2015; the latest edition was released in February 2016.
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On January 22, 2016, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FARC) published a proposed rule about contractor and subcontractor whistleblowers.