On November 13, the Government Accountability Office made its annual report to Congress which includes the hotly anticipated bid protest statistics report. Ok, not so hotly anticipated, but it is always interesting. Also included in the annual report is a …
On Tuesday, November 27, 2012, the US Court of Federal Claims issued a much-anticipated decision in Kingdomware Technologies, Inc. v. United States. Kingdomware filed a protest at the Court challenging the VA’s use of the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) …
On July 26, 2012, the FAR Council issued a final rule entitled “Reporting Executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards.” The final rule follows an interim rule issued on the same subject on July 8, 2010. Both the interim and final …
On February 6 of this year, the Air Force proposed for debarment the San Antonio office of Booz Allen. The Air Force proposed the San Antonio office for debarment because a former Air Force official who joined Booz Allen brought …
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 …