March has been a busy month for the House Small Business Committee. In the last month, the committee has reported out over ten separate pieces of legislation affecting small business government contractors. What is particularly noteworthy is that all these …
Every year the General Accounting Office publishes statistics regarding bid protests filed with GAO the previous fiscal year. Yesterday, GAO released those statistics for FYs 2007-2011. These statistics show some interesting trends.
There was an 2% increase in protests filed …
Yesterday, a DC District Court ordered VA/CVE to go back and reconsider a SDVOSB verification application that it had denied. This appears to be the first known court challenge of a VA SDVOSB verification denial. The court held that VA …
On Friday, March 2, the DoD IG issued a controversial report regarding DoD’s use of the SDVOSB set-aside program. In particular, the IG concluded that DoD did not have adequate controls preventing fraud in the program. Interestingly, the report has …
There are some interesting legal nuances regarding subcontracting plans of which most government contractors are not aware. Most contractors know that, in negotiated acquisitions, each solicitation of offers to perform a contract or contract modification, that individually is expected to …
On March 16, 2011, SBA posted for public comment proposed changes to the size standards for Sector 54, Professional, Technical and Scientific Services. SBA received nearly 1,500 comments on the proposed rule, the majority of which addressed the proposed increase …
Earlier this week, the Air Force issued a Notice of Proposed Debarment to Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. The basis for the debarment is set forth in a memorandum attached to the notice (contact me if you would like a copy). …
Organizational Conflicts of Interest (“OCI”) has been a “hot topic” in government contracts ever since new DoD OCI regulations for Major Defense Acquisition Programs were published in December of 2010. While the final regulations were far narrower than anticipated, the …
In my earlier blog post on the GAO’s decision in VSE Corporation (B-404833.4, November 21, 2011), I commented on GAO case law holding that “an appearance of impropriety” can justify the disqualification of a contractor from a procurement. In the …
In 2010, the Government implemented the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS). FAPIIS consolidates information from various federal databases such as the Excluded Parties List System (EPLS), the Past Performance Information Retrieval System (PPIRS) and the Contractor Performance …